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Criterion
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
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 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.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
60-180 min1-4 Wochen1-2 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-206-30 Experten4-122-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsPower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
Tagsno overlap
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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