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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Option Framing |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-120 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison | InnovationPrototypeResearch | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue |