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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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. | 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. | A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 20–45 min | 60-90 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | Small cross-functional group | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis |