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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | 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. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 20–45 min | Half day | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Value Chain Map, Lever List | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |