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| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. | 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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60-90 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-10 | 5-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority |
Tagsno overlap | FailureResilienceRisk | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion |
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