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| Criterion |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | 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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 20-45 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 4-10 | 3-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |