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Criterion
Paper illustration for VMGS
Business Strategy
VMGS
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
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Decision Making
Argument 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 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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-4 Wochen1-3 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten2-81-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesIssue Map, Positions, Argument NotesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
VisionGoalsStrategy
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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