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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Product Strategy KPI Tree |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | KPI Tree, Owner List | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FlowMeasurementConstraints | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |