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Criterion
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
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.In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min45-90 min15-45 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-121-104-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision LogMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
DecisionRolesGovernance
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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