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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Knowledge Modeling IBIS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h | 4-5 Tage | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 | 5-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Issue Map, Positions, Argument Notes |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | SensemakingDecisionRationale | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | RationaleKnowledgeDecision |