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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Purposedifferent
When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
4-121-61
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListAction Lists, Project List, Review Routine
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationOptionsDecision
DecisionTreeOptions
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam