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| Criterion |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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 | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | Mehrere Wochen | 60–90 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |