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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 Wochen | 45-90 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-12 Interviews | 3-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CustomerOutcomesNeeds | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | InnovationPrototypeResearch |