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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |  Product Strategy Impact 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. | 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 Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |