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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 Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
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.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.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.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min60-120 min60-90 minMultiple workshops over several weeks
Participantsdifferent
2-123-84-102-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
GrowthRetentionConversion
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
GrowthBehaviorRetention
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