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| Criterion |  Decision Making RAPID |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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 | Medium | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-8 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionRolesGovernance | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |