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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |  UX Research Surveys |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h | 3-14 Tage | 20–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 50+ | Small cross-functional group |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FailureResilienceRisk | QuantitativeResearchValidation | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning |