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| Criterion |  Facilitation Troika Consulting |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When someone needs to sort out a concrete work problem, Troika Consulting offers fast peer consulting with a tight focus. The method brings perspectives together without taking responsibility out of the person's hands. | 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. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-45 min | 45-90 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-30 | 3-10 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Advice Notes, Next Actions, Peer Insights | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationCoachingLearning | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |