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Criterion
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
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.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 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 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
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage1-4 h1-3 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
50+2-85-304-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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