Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by describing the change objective, collecting driving forces, and deriving interventions.
Core question: Which forces drive the desired change and which restrain it, and which interventions most strongly shift the balance?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
3-12
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Business StrategyCategory: Business Strategy. Describes the method's domain of use.
Clarifies starting point, opportunities, and strategic options by framing the scope and target state, capturing the seven elements, and deriving change actions.
Core question: Which seven S are not aligned and which tension most strongly threatens execution of the strategy?
Analysis methodMethod form: Analysis method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h
3-12
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FacilitationCategory: Facilitation. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by listing stakeholders, assessing influence and interest, and planning next conversations.
Core question: Who is affected by the initiative, who influences success, and which relationship must be maintained with whom, at which frequency and message?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-60 min
2-8
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OperationsCategory: Operations. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by describing the deviation, choosing a comparison case, and deriving causes and actions.
Core question: Which differences between should and is explain the observed deviation, and which of those differences are causal, contributing, or random?
Analysis methodMethod form: Analysis method. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-120 min
2-6
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by formulating the planned change, deriving desired effects, and refining and safeguarding the solution.
Core question: Do the planned changes plausibly lead to desired effects, and which negative branches must be protected against?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
2-4 h
3-8
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by analyzing the problem and target group, defining change objectives, and planning implementation and evaluation.
Core question: Which intervention fits problem, target group, behavior, context, and evaluation?
Process modelMethod form: Process model. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
1-5 Tage
4-12
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Moves relationships, patterns, and leverage toward a concrete result through "introduce the twelve leverage points", "collect planned actions", and "formulate a strategy across multiple levers".
Core question: Which leverage levels address our planned actions, and which higher-level levers would produce stronger impact?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.HighComplexity: high. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
Half day
3-12
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by setting system boundaries, collecting components, and deriving leverage points.
Core question: Which components, actors and relationships form the system, where are boundaries, and which levers are changeable inside boundary?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.