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| Criterion |  Facilitation World Café |  Innovation SCAMPER |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  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. | For an existing solution under pressure to change, the method deliberately opens space for systematic variants. It directs attention to rebuilding, combining, and repurposing rather than only new basic ideas. This produces concrete evolution paths for products, offerings, or workflows. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. | 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 | 60-180 min | 30-60 min | 10-20 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 12-100+ | 2-10 | 4-100+ | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | SCAMPER Idea List, Concept Shortlist, Variation Notes | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityReframingInnovation | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |