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Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
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.A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
20-45 min30-90 min60-180 min
Participantsdifferent
1-82-104-20
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesRich Picture, Problem Framing NotesCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
Tagsno overlap
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
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Paper illustration for Soft Systems Methodology.
Systems Thinking
Soft Systems Methodology
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping