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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument 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 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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-4 Wochen1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-126-30 Experten1-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
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StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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