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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations PDCA Cycle |  Innovation Contradiction 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 an improvement that still has to prove itself in everyday work, the method runs it through small learning loops. It connects planning, checking, and standardization into a repeatable learning mode. | When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1 h bis mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | PDCA Log, Experiment Plan, Learning Outcome, Standard Change | Contradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Continuous improvementLeanExperiments | ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving |
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