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| Criterion |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | Mehrere Wochen | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |