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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Decision Making RAPID |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 45-90 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-20 Reviewer | 3-12 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | DecisionRolesGovernance | InnovationPrototypeResearch |