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Business Strategy
VMGS
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Purposedifferent
VMGS arranges vision, mission, goals, and strategies into a clear guiding logic. Direction, purpose, and priorities are connected so teams can decide more coherently.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-3 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-121-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleIssue Map, Positions, Argument Notes
Tagsno overlap
VisionGoalsStrategy
SensemakingDecisionRationale
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
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Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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Product Strategy
DIBB