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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Operations Kaizen Event | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|
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 tightly scoped process segment with noticeable waste, the method bundles shared energy for change. It suits situations that call for fast learning loops and visible adjustments. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 0.5-5 Tage | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Kaizen Charter, Waste List, Improvement Experiments, Standard Work Update | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | LeanContinuous improvementOperations | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |
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