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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Purposedifferent
When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed 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 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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 min60-90 min1-4 Wochen30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-124-106-30 Experten1-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
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FacilitationOptionsDecision
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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