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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 30-90 min | 1-2 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 2-10 | 4-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |