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Criterion
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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
HighMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen90-180 min30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
6-30 Experten4-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDecision Rights Matrix, AgreementRAID Log, Status Report SourceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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