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| Criterion |  Innovation Starbursting |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Facilitation Problem Framing Workshop |  Innovation Design Charrette |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other. | 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 | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 4-10 | 10-50 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Problem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation |