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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations MORT Analysis |  Operations Kepner-Tregoe |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps. | For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations. | When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Tage bis Wochen | 2-8 h | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | MORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations | Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Root causeSafetySystemicIncident | Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident |