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Criterion
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration of Futures Wheel with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Futures Wheel
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Purposedifferent
With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time.The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
10-20 min daily60-120 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
13-102-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Daily Plan, Time Estimates, Review NotesFutures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic SignalsDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
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PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
ForesightSystems thinkingSignals
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud