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Paper illustration for VMGS
Business Strategy
VMGS
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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 a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.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 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
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h60-90 min1-4 Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-124-106-30 Experten4-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
VisionGoalsStrategy
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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