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| Criterion |  Innovation Starbursting |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Innovation Brainwriting |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 15-30 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 3-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |