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Criterion
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Purposedifferent
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.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.
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Timedifferent
30-60 min1-3 h45-90 min1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-101-82-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan
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BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
SensemakingDecisionRationale
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
RiskDecisionSensemaking
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