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| Criterion | ![]() Systems Thinking VUCA Scan | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Business Strategy Scenario Planning | ![]() Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The VUCA Scan helps read difficult situations more precisely. Instead of treating unclarity as generally complicated, the method separates fast change, missing knowledge, systemic entanglement, and ambiguous interpretation. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 0.5-2 Tage | 60-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-10 | 4-12 | 4-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VUCA Map, Response Options, Signal and Learning Plan | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes |
Tagsno overlap | SensemakingUncertaintyComplexityStrategyForesight | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning | ComplexitySensemakingDecision |



