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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Innovation Design Thinking |  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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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. | 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 | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |