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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Context Canvas | ![]() Systems Thinking Rich Picture | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique | ![]() Innovation Round Robin 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. | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | 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 unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-10 | 5-12 | 4-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |



