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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree | ![]() Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |
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