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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Innovation Starbursting |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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. | 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. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Half day | 30-60 min | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |