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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Purposedifferent
Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.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.When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-3 h1-4 Wochen60-180 min
Participantsdifferent
4-121-86-30 Experten4-20
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
SensemakingDecisionRationale
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
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