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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-12 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tags1 shared | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | FacilitationOptionsDecision | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |