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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 10-20 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-10 | 4-100+ | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |