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Criterion
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
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 a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLow
Timedifferent
Mehrere Wochen60-120 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-6 researchers plus sample2-83-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept IdeasLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
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OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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Innovation
Brainstorming
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Innovation
Design Charrette