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| Criterion |  Innovation TRIZ |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Sprint |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | Mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | QuantitativeResearchValidation |