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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Business Model Stress Test
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 strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighLowHigh
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-4 h20–45 minHalf day
Participantsdifferent
4-123-8Small cross-functional group3-8
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logStress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
RiskDecisionSensemaking
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis
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