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| Criterion |  Innovation TRIZ |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Innovation Contradiction Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Contradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving |