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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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 | 15-45 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-10 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |
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