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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 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
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
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.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.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.
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Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-2 h1-4 Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-121-86-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge GapsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
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StrategyMetricsExecution
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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