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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Product Canvas |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Innovation Starbursting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | 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 | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 45-90 min | 20-45 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope Notes | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasDiscoveryScope | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |