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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 5-15 min | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 4-10 | 1-5 | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | InnovationPrototypeResearch | StartupValidationCompetition | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |