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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Brainwriting |  UX Research Surveys |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min | 3-14 Tage | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-12 | 50+ | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | QuantitativeResearchValidation | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation |