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| Criterion |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Innovation How Might We |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 30–45 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 1-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |
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