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| Criterion | ![]() Systems Thinking Rich Picture | ![]() Facilitation World Café | ![]() Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis | ![]() Facilitation Barcamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity. | 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. | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-180 min | 45-90 min | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 12-100+ | 3-8 | 15-200 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | FacilitationLarge groupLearning |



