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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam | ![]() Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |
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