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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations PDCA Cycle |  UX Design Lean UX 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. | 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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1 h bis mehrere Wochen | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | PDCA Log, Experiment Plan, Learning Outcome, Standard Change | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Continuous improvementLeanExperiments | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |
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