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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration of Futures Wheel with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Futures Wheel
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.The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event.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
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage60-120 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-123-101-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsFutures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic SignalsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
ForesightSystems thinkingSignals
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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