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| Criterion |  Innovation Solo Brainstorming |  Innovation Starbursting |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Innovation Design Charrette |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For an individual thinking problem with no counterpart immediately available, the method creates a protected space for one's own approaches. It prevents outside opinions from narrowing thinking too early. This lets ideas mature before they go into a group format. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-60 min | 30-60 min | 2-6 h | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 10-50 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Personal Idea List, Sketches or Mind Map, Pre-Read for Group Session | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationAsync | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation |