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| Criterion |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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. | 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 many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 45-90 min | 20-45 min | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 4-10 | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |