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| Criterion |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | Mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | QuantitativeResearchValidation |