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Criterion
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Purposedifferent
When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
60-180 min60-90 min1-4 Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-204-106-30 Experten4-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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