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Criterion
Paper illustration for Golden Circle
Growth
Golden Circle
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Purposedifferent
In positioning and communication, what an offering actually stands for often becomes blurred. The Golden Circle sharpens a product's inner rationale and connects purpose, approach, and offering into a clear statement.When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
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30-60 min45-90 min30-90 min
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Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
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Why Statement, Messaging Notes, Positioning DraftPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
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MarketingPositioningCommunication
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis