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Criterion
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Purposedifferent
When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
1-2 h1-4 Wochen2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
4-126-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
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AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model