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Criterion
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
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.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
Complexitysame
HighHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
6-30 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Causal Loop Diagram workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Causal Loop Diagram
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis