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Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-3 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-101-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Rich Picture, Problem Framing NotesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
SensemakingDecisionRationale
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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