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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Three Horizons | ![]() UX Research Surveys | ![]() Growth A/B Testing | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. | 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. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 3-14 Tage | 1-4 Wochen | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 50+ | 1-6 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |



