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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|
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 limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-120 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |
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