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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin 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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage30-90 min60-180 min
Participantsdifferent
4-121-64-20
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
DecisionTreeOptions
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
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Paper illustration of VUCA Scan with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
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