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Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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 a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.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
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
60-120 min1-4 Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-106-30 Experten4-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
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Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping