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Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
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Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration of Family Tree Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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Family Tree Analysis
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
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20-45 min2-4 h2-6 h
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1-82-63-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
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Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesFamily Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic MeasuresCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
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Causal Factor Analysis
Iceberg Model method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Iceberg Model
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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MORT Analysis
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process