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| Criterion |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 10-20 min | 2-4 h | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 4-100+ | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking |