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| Criterion |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Innovation Starbursting |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |