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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Operations Fault Tree Analysis | ![]() Operations Fishbone Diagram |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a critical top event with several possible triggers, the method logically models failure paths. It makes visible which combinations of conditions can lead to damage. | When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2-6 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Fault Tree, Critical Paths, Cause Hypotheses, Control Actions | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RiskRoot causeSafety | Root causeQualityOperations |
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