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| Criterion |  Facilitation Storytelling |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily. | 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 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. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |