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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min10-20 min1-2 h Setup, laufend20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-124-100+2-64-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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