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Criterion
Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
Business Strategy
SWOT Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
A single opinion rarely holds up for planning when the future is genuinely uncertain. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as an Estimate Range, Assumption Log, and Expert Consensus Notes.SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 h or multiple rounds30-60 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Experten3-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesSWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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EstimationExpertsForecasting
StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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