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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Innovation Rapid Ideation |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a decision needs to be prepared quickly, the method generates many solution-close variants in a short time. It deliberately relies on pace to undercut self-censorship and perfectionism. This quickly produces a usable field for prioritization and further work. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 5-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-10 | 1-20 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Ideenpool, Roh-Shortlist, Cluster |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | BrainstormingIdeationDivergenceSpeed |
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