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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration of VUCA Scan with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
VUCA Scan
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
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 VUCA Scan helps read difficult situations more precisely. Instead of treating unclarity as generally complicated, the method separates fast change, missing knowledge, systemic entanglement, and ambiguous interpretation.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowHigh
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage30-90 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-121-104-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsVUCA Map, Response Options, Signal and Learning PlanBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
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StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
SensemakingUncertaintyComplexityStrategyForesight
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Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
GAP Analysis
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Operations
Getting Things Done