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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 30-180 min | 60-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 1-6 | 4-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |