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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.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.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
OngoingHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1-204-123-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
StrategyMetricsExecution
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
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Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Paper illustration for TOWS Matrix.
Business Strategy
TOWS Matrix