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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Scenario Planning |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 0.5-2 Tage | 30-90 min | 60–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange |
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