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Criterion
Paper illustration of many question cards around one challenge
Facilitation
Question Burst
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
When a problem gets covered up too quickly with answers, Question Burst puts the better question at the center. The format opens the thinking space before the group commits to an interpretation.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min1-4 Wochen60-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-86-30 Experten4-101-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Question List, Reframed Challenge, Learning PromptsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
QuestionsReframingFacilitationSensemaking
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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