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| Criterion |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Facilitation Dot Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 15-45 min | 20-45 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 1-10 | 4-10 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tags1 shared | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |