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Business Strategy
VMGS
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
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 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 a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-4 Wochen1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten5-30
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas
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VisionGoalsStrategy
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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Alignment Mapping
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Decision Jam
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Product Vision Board
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