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| Criterion |  Innovation How Might We |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30–45 min | 45-120 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan |
Tagsno overlap | FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions |
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