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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLow
Timedifferent
6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-DownMehrere Wochen5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
2-4 pro Pitch2-6 researchers plus sample1-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step
Tagsno overlap
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
StartupValidationCompetition
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking