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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews) |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail. | 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 the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people | 4-10 | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checks | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean | InnovationPrototypeResearch | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |