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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Product Strategy OKRs |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min | 1-2 h Setup | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 | 2-20 | 3-6 |
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 | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |