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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Innovation Contradiction Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 60-90 min | 4-5 Tage | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 5-8 | 2-8 |
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 | Contradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving |