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Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
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1-2-4-All
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
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.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
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Timedifferent
10-20 min45-120 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
4-100+2-84-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
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BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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Decision Making
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