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| Criterion |  Facilitation Barcamp |  Innovation Starbursting |  Facilitation Problem Framing Workshop |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other. | 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 | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 30-60 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 15-200 | 3-10 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Problem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |