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Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
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Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Purposedifferent
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 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 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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
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Timedifferent
60-90 min1-2 h1-4 Wochen60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-104-126-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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