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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |  Innovation Starbursting |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking |
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