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Criterion
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Purposedifferent
For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.
Complexitydifferent
HighMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-84-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items
Tagsno overlap
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
FacilitationOptionsDecision
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Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
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Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree