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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam | ![]() Facilitation 1-2-4-All | ![]() Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 60-90 min | 10-20 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 4-10 | 4-100+ | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |



