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| Criterion |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 30-90 min | 30-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | FacilitationOptionsDecision |