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Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.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 decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighLow
Timedifferent
1-4 hMehrere Wochen60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-6 researchers plus sample4-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
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.
Innovation
Design Thinking