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Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Purposedifferent
When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting.When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
60-120 min60-120 min10-20 min
Participantsdifferent
5-122-84-100+
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group PriorityContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept IdeasIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes
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FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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Innovation
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