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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Option Framing |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-120 min | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |
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