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Facilitation
Lean Coffee
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Purposedifferent
When a group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
30-90 min1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-202-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action ItemsContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts
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FacilitationAutonomyDialogue
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
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