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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making RAPID |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 45-120 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | 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 | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | DecisionRolesGovernance | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs |