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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min | 30-90 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions |