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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 5-12 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |
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