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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.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.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
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Timedifferent
1-3 h90-180 min1-2 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-303-84-124-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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