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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment 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 a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage60-120 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-124-104-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model