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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |
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