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Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of Three Horizons with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Three Horizons
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon.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
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
OngoingHalbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-123-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsHorizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource planExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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FlowVisual managementDelivery
StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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