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| Criterion | ![]() Innovation TRIZ | ![]() Innovation Morphological Analysis | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately. | 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. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | 1-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Morphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | IdeationInnovationCreativity | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |



