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Criterion
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Purposedifferent
A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.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.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min10-20 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-104-100+3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Rich Picture, Problem Framing NotesIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
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Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
How Might We
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How Might We
Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique