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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | 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. | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 1-3 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 | 5-30 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas |