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Criterion
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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.When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-45 min30-60 min je Interview1-3 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-105-12 Interviews5-303-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsInterview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer QuotesConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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