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Criterion
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen0.5-2 Tage20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
6-30 Experten4-12Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
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ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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