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Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Purposedifferent
With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.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
MediumHigh
Timedifferent
45-120 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-84-12
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
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TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
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