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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
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.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min60-120 min60–90 min45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
3-84-102-83-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
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