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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
GAP 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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-62-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceGap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
StrategyAnalysisPlanning
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