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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations Time Blocking |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With a calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure. | 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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min Planung, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1 | 3-10 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Blocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus Plan | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | PlanningTime managementFocus | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | InnovationPrototypeResearch |