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Criterion
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen60-120 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
4-122-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap
StrategyMetricsExecution
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Causal Loop Diagram workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Causal Loop Diagram
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics