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Criterion
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Purposedifferent
The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.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 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.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
60-120 min60-90 min1-4 Wochen1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-84-106-30 Experten5-30
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas
Tagsno overlap
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
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