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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  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 a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 15-45 min | 60-120 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 1-10 | 5-12 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tags1 shared | TimelineFacilitationSequence | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |