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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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 | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-6 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | InnovationPrototypeResearch |
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