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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Canvas | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | InnovationPrototypeResearch | StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis |



