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| Criterion |  Decision Making OODA Loop |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In dynamic situations, decisions become outdated faster than they can be prepared. The OODA Loop holds observing, orienting, deciding, and acting together as a recurring rhythm so reaction does not slide into inertia. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-60 min je Zyklus | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 3-10 | 6-30 Experten | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Situation Assessment, Decision Loop, Action Updates | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionChangeLearningStrategy | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |