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Criterion
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.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.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighHighLow
Timedifferent
90-180 min2-4 h1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-86-30 Experten3-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequenceFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ChangeDecisionStrategy
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