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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations Kepner-Tregoe |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Operations 5 Whys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | For a single, hard-to-explain deviation, the method exposes the causal chain behind the visible symptom. It keeps the cause open until a controllable condition emerges instead of a mere description. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2-8 h | 1-3 h | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 5-30 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Root cause notes, Countermeasures |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | Root causeIncidentLeanProblem solving |