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| Criterion |  Facilitation Barcamp |  Innovation Starbursting |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 15-200 | 3-10 | 3-10 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |