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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Problem Framing Workshop |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other. | 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. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 4-10 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery | InnovationPrototypeResearch | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |