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| Criterion |  Facilitation World Café |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 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. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 12-100+ | 4-12 | 5-30 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |