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| Criterion |  Decision Making Radar |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Decision Making Constraint 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. | 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. | 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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 45-120 min | 60-120 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action Areas | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | AssessmentPortfolioCapability | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |