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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Decision Making Trade-off 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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |
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