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Criterion
Paper illustration of an activity-role table with clear RACI assignments and one highlighted accountable role per activity.
Operations
RACI Matrix
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
Purposedifferent
With unclear responsibilities across several roles or areas, the method creates unambiguous accountability logic. It reduces friction because decision, execution, contribution, and information become separately visible.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.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.In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighHighMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-8 h1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-86-30 Experten3-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RACI Matrix, Responsibility Map, Decision NotesProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk PlanExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
RolesResponsibilityGovernanceOperations
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionRolesGovernance
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