Impact Trust • Working glossary
Critical juncture analysis
Identifying key decision points that could send a situation down very different paths.
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Our Take
Useful analytical method. 'Fork in the road analysis' or 'what-if mapping' works better in practice. The value is in forcing specificity about which decisions or events really matter, rather than treating the future as a fog.
Examples of Use
Cascade Institute, political science
Synonyms/Variants
Fork-in-the-riad aalysis; What-if mapping; Decision-point mapping
Typical everyday wording
Mapping the forks in the road.
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