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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-12 | 4-10 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | InnovationPrototypeResearch | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance |