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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Knowledge Modeling Concept Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-4 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 3-8 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Concept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | RiskDecisionSensemaking | KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking |
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