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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
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Innovation
TRIZ
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Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.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
LowHighLow
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend1-4 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-83-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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Innovation
Brainstorming
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Innovation
Reverse Brainstorming
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Innovation
Contradiction Analysis