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| Criterion |  Decision Making Radar |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When capabilities, maturity levels, or market positions need to be compared across several dimensions, overview is easily lost. Radar brings different characteristics into a shared picture and shows patterns faster than tables do. | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 4-10 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action Areas | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | AssessmentPortfolioCapability | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |