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Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
Paper illustration of Three Horizons with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Three Horizons
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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.Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon.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
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
60-120 minHalbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ10-20 min
Participantsdifferent
5-123-124-100+
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group PriorityHorizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource planIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion
StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight
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