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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min | 1-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 | 3-8 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | FlowMeasurementConstraints | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |