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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Operations 8D Problem Solving | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-6 Wochen | 20-35 min | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | 8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action Plan | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QualityProblem solvingRoot cause | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |



