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Criterion
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.
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Timedifferent
60-180 min0.5-2 Tage20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
4-204-12Small cross-functional group
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
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Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
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ComplexitySensemakingDecision
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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Paper illustration of VUCA Scan with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
VUCA Scan
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing