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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research User Interviews | ![]() Product Strategy Impact Mapping | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 30–60 min per interview | 45-90 min | 1-2 h | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |



