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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making Delphi Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 h | 30-90 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 6-30 Experten |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | FlowMeasurementConstraints | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy |