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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
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.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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.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
LowHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
20–45 min0.5-2 Tage30-90 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group4-121-66-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
DecisionTreeOptions
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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