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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2-6 h | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality | QuantitativeResearchValidation |
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