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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Innovation Morphological Analysis |  Innovation Starbursting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Morphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | IdeationInnovationCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |