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| Criterion |  Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 20-45 min | 1-2 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 4-10 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |