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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam | ![]() Innovation Design Sprint | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 60-90 min | 4-5 Tage | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 5-8 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |



