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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery Shape Up | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 4-10 | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | InnovationPrototypeResearch | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |



