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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 30-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |
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