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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Facilitation Storytelling |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  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 an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily. | 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 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-120 min | 45-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-6 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation | FacilitationOptionsDecision | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |