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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Innovation Starbursting |  Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 3-10 | 5-15 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |