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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Facilitation Problem Framing Workshop |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Innovation Starbursting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60-120 min | 20-45 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 4-10 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Problem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |