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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Innovation Morphological Analysis |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately. | 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 | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Morphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | InnovationPrototypeResearch | IdeationInnovationCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |