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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Product Strategy OKRs |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h | 1-2 h Setup | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 2-20 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FlowMeasurementConstraints | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |