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Paper illustration for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-102-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Knowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer PlanStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeMappingRisk
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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