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| Criterion |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |  Facilitation Power Interest Grid |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. | When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 20–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionSensemaking | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning |