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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
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 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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighHighMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 min1-4 Wochen30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-106-30 Experten1-85-30
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas
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FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ForecastingFlowDelivery
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
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