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Selected:Outcome-Driven Innovation Architecture Decision Record Causal Factor Analysis Current Reality Tree

Criterion	Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Operations Causal Factor Analysis	Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree
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.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.	A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
Complexitydifferent	High	Low	High	High
Timedifferent	Mehrere Wochen	15-45 min	2-6 h	2-6 h
Participantsdifferent	2-6 researchers plus sample	1-3	3-10	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions	Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap	OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline	Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality

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