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Criterion
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Purposedifferent
When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 WochenHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage1-2 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-30 Experten10-502-83-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
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ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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