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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  UX Research Surveys |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min | 3-14 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 | 50+ | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | QuantitativeResearchValidation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |