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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Operations 8D Problem Solving | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Operations 5 Whys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | For an acute quality or delivery problem, the method structures immediate protection and root cause work together. It keeps the situation stable while the actual cause is investigated cleanly. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | For a single, hard-to-explain deviation, the method exposes the causal chain behind the visible symptom. It keeps the cause open until a controllable condition emerges instead of a mere description. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-6 Wochen | 2-3 h | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 3-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | 8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action Plan | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Root cause notes, Countermeasures |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QualityProblem solvingRoot cause | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | Root causeIncidentLeanProblem solving |



