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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Product Strategy Lean 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model |
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