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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
Stakeholder Mapping
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 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 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.
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Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage60-120 min60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-124-102-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
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StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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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 of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing