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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Systems Thinking VUCA Scan | ![]() Decision Making Argument Mapping | ![]() Business Strategy Scenario Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | The VUCA Scan helps read difficult situations more precisely. Instead of treating unclarity as generally complicated, the method separates fast change, missing knowledge, systemic entanglement, and ambiguous interpretation. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-90 min | 1-3 h | 0.5-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-10 | 1-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | VUCA Map, Response Options, Signal and Learning Plan | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | SensemakingUncertaintyComplexityStrategyForesight | SensemakingDecisionRationale | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning |



