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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Cynefin Workshop | ![]() Decision Making Red Teaming | ![]() Systems Thinking Rich Picture | ![]() Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 1-4 h | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-20 | 3-8 | 2-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | RiskDecisionSensemaking | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |



