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Criterion	Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation	Innovation Design Thinking	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas
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.	For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.
Complexitydifferent	High	High	Low	Low
Timedifferent	Mehrere Wochen	1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen	1-2 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	2-6 researchers plus sample	4-10	3-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses	Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
Tagsno overlap	OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative	InnovationPrototypeResearch	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop

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