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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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 a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-3 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-125-304-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis