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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Delphi Method | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Canvas | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h pro Pattern | 1-2 h | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 6-30 Experten | 1-6 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |



