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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus 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 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.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage60-90 min1-4 Wochen1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-124-106-30 Experten5-30
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
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