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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making PERT Estimation |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Business Strategy Scenario Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | On complex initiatives, a plain average tends to understate just how uncertain the outcome really is. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a PERT Estimate, Expected Value, and Risk Notes. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 15-45 min | 30-90 min | 0.5-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-8 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | PERT Estimate, Expected Value, Risk Notes | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | EstimationUncertaintyRisk | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning |