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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Business Strategy Business Model 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. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | InnovationPrototypeResearch | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation |