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Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Impact Filter
Decision Making
Impact Filter
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.With new ideas or requests, the conversation often turns to solutions too early and to effect too little. An Impact Filter forces the initiative into an effect perspective and checks whether it creates a relevant difference.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLow
Timedifferent
Mehrere Wochen30-90 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-6 researchers plus sample2-81-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision BoundariesImpact Filter, Success Criteria, Next Step
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
ImpactOutcomesFramingDecision
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Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping