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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 5-30 | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |