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| Criterion |  Business Strategy VMGS |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Decision Making Decision Framing 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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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 decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-120 min | 1-4 Wochen | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-8 | 6-30 Experten | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, Strategies | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan |
Tagsno overlap | VisionGoalsStrategy | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions |