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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |  Operations 8D Problem Solving |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. | For an acute quality or delivery problem, the method structures immediate protection and root cause work together. It keeps the situation stable while the actual cause is investigated cleanly. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration | 1-6 Wochen | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report | 8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action Plan | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions | QualityProblem solvingRoot cause | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |