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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Purposedifferent
When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 minMehrere Wochen30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-122-6 researchers plus sample1-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
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FacilitationOptionsDecision
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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
Paper illustration for Impact Filter
Decision Making
Impact Filter