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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of a Business Model Canvas with nine connected compartments, a few notes and symbols for customers, delivery and economic relationships.
Business Strategy
Business Model Canvas
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins.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
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Timedifferent
20–45 min1-2 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group2-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logBusiness Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business HypothesesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
Business modelStrategyValueInnovation
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Paper illustration of a Strategy Canvas with several value curves
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Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
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