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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 20–45 min | 45-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |