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Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
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Decision Making
Impact Filter
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Purposedifferent
When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal.With new ideas or requests, the conversation often turns to solutions too early and to effect too little. An Impact Filter forces the initiative into an effect perspective and checks whether it creates a relevant difference.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.
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Timedifferent
3-14 Tage20-45 minMehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
50+1-62-6 researchers plus sample
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsImpact Filter, Success Criteria, Next StepDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses
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QuantitativeResearchValidation
ImpactOutcomesFramingDecision
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
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Innovation
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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.
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Systems Thinking
Theory of Change
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