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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation World Café |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Innovation 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 group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-180 min | 20-45 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 12-100+ | 4-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |