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Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 h1-3 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-82-81-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanIssue Map, Positions, Argument NotesExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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RiskDecisionSensemaking
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing