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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.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.
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1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen45-90 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-104-124-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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InnovationPrototypeResearch
FacilitationOptionsDecision
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree