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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
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.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.A single opinion rarely holds up for planning when the future is genuinely uncertain. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as an Estimate Range, Assumption Log, and Expert Consensus Notes.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
MediumHighHighLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 Wochen1-4 h or multiple rounds60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-306-30 Experten4-12 Experten4-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesEstimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
EstimationExpertsForecasting
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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