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Criterion
Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
Business Strategy
SWOT Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Purposedifferent
SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.
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LowHighMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-4 Wochen60-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten4-20
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
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StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
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Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
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Paper illustration of VUCA Scan with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
VUCA Scan
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
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