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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Innovation TRIZ |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 60-90 min | 1-4 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |