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Criterion
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-3 h1-2 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-121-81-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge GapsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
StrategyMetricsExecution
SensemakingDecisionRationale
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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