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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Facilitation Question Burst |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Innovation How Might We |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 problem gets covered up too quickly with answers, Question Burst puts the better question at the center. The format opens the thinking space before the group commits to an interpretation. | 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. | With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 15-30 min | 60-120 min | 30–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 5-12 | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Question List, Reframed Challenge, Learning Prompts | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | QuestionsReframingFacilitationSensemaking | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions |