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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 TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
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.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.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
MediumMediumHighLow
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage1-3 h1-4 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
50+5-302-84-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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