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Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Purposedifferent
When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
10-20 min1-2 h Setup, laufendWochen bis Monate je Goal
Participantsdifferent
4-100+2-63-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports
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FacilitationInclusionIdeation
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
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How Might We
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