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Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage1-3 h60-120 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
50+5-302-84-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept IdeasProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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