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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 Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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 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.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage60-120 min60-180 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-123-104-202-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsFutures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic SignalsCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
ForesightSystems thinkingSignals
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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