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Criterion
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Decision Making
RAPID
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Purposedifferent
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.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-124-121-3
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision LogBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
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DecisionRolesGovernance
StrategyMetricsExecution
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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Request for Comments
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Decision Making
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