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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.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.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.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
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min60-90 min10-20 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-104-104-100+4-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesIdea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence
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