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| Criterion |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |  Decision Making RAPID |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-120 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-8 | 2-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ICE Table, Top Idea List | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tags1 shared | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | DecisionRolesGovernance | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |