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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 60-180 min | 90-180 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-20 | 4-12 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | SensemakingDecisionRationale |