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Process Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Operations
Process Mapping
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots.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.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h0.5-2 Tage1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-104-121-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Process Map, Handoff List, Improvement BacklogScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
ProcessOperationsImprovement
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Systems Thinking
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Operations
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ALPEN Method
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
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