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* [[Critical assumption planning]] (CAP) by D. Dunham & Co : Aims to help managers and entrepreneurs to maximize business development learning at least cost by means of challenging and testing assumptions.
* Assumption-based planning by [[RAND]] : Aims raising the visibility of the make-or-break uncertainties common to new ventures at the lowest possible cost by means of forcing managers to articulate what they don’t know.
* Discovery-Driven Planning by [[Rita Gunther McGrath]] and Ian C. MacMillan: aims to identify the critical assumptions underlying an organization’s thinking and operations, and then to understand which of those assumptions may become vulnerable and how <ref>McGrath, R. G. & MacMillan, I. C. 1995. Discovery Driven Planning. Harvard Business Review, 73(4): 44-54. </ref><
== Assumption based planning topics ==
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=== Implicit and explicit assumptions ===
Assumptions according to Wikipedia are “[[Proposition (philosophy)|proposition]]s that are assumed, i.e., treated within the context of a discussion as if it were known to be true or false”. But although the Wikipedia definition of an assumption is correct, a better definition of assumptions in the context of business planning and ABP is given by [[RAND]].
“An assumption is an assertion about some characteristic of the future that underlies the current operations or plans of an organization”
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== The Assumption Based Planning Process ==
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In order to provide a general overview of assumption based planning process a simplified process-data diagram is presented. This diagram is based on the “common” aspects of the Critical Assumption Planning, Assumption-based planning by [[RAND]] and Discovery-Driven planning methods. It is advisable to check out the separate methods for a more detailed description of the ABP process.
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