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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 illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
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 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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.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
HighLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage30-90 min1-2 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-121-102-81-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsVUCA Map, Response Options, Signal and Learning PlanDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
SensemakingUncertaintyComplexityStrategyForesight
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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