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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 for Time Blocking
Operations
Time Blocking
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.With a calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min15-30 min Planung, laufend60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-1214-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsBlocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus PlanProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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FacilitationOptionsDecision
PlanningTime managementFocus
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree