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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 matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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 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.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.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.
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Timedifferent
45-90 min45-90 min60-90 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
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Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
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Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
FacilitationOptionsDecision
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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