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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Innovation Starbursting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-6 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |