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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 30-60 min | 60-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |