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Criterion
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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.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.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 h20–45 min60-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-8Small cross-functional group4-101-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tags1 shared
RiskDecisionSensemaking
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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