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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Delegation Poker | ![]() Innovation Lotus Blossom | ![]() Facilitation 1-2-4-All | ![]() Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When decisions get stuck between leadership and team, Delegation Poker clarifies the desired scope of autonomy. It shows how much decision-making latitude a role should actually get in practice. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 10-20 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 4-100+ | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Delegation Board, Decision Boundaries, Role Agreements | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | AutonomyRolesTeam | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |



