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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Growth Flywheel | ![]() Product Strategy ICE Scoring | ![]() Facilitation Dot Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | GrowthRetentionConversion | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |



