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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-12 | 4-10 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FacilitationOptionsDecision | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | DecisionTreeOptions |