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| Criterion |  Product Strategy RICE Scoring |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many initiatives compete for the same resources, it brings reach, impact, confidence, and effort into one shared ranking. It makes prioritization economically connectable. | 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. | 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 | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption Log | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs |