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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | Half day | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-12 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | InnovationPrototypeResearch | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue |