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| Criterion |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  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 project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |