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Criterion
Paper radar with five axes, two current and target profiles, and evidence cards beside each dimension.
Decision Making
Radar
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Purposedifferent
When capabilities, maturity levels, or market positions need to be compared across several dimensions, overview is easily lost. Radar brings different characteristics into a shared picture and shows patterns faster than tables do.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.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
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h15-45 min20-45 min10-20 min
Participantsdifferent
2-101-104-104-100+
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action AreasMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsIdea List, Cluster, ShortlistIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes
Tagsno overlap
AssessmentPortfolioCapability
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
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