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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation TRIZ |  Innovation SCAMPER |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | For an existing solution under pressure to change, the method deliberately opens space for systematic variants. It directs attention to rebuilding, combining, and repurposing rather than only new basic ideas. This produces concrete evolution paths for products, offerings, or workflows. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-4 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | SCAMPER Idea List, Concept Shortlist, Variation Notes |
Tags1 shared | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityReframingInnovation |
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