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Criterion
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min1-4 Wochen15-45 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten1-104-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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