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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 mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
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.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLow
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen15-45 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-121-102-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsCounter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions
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StrategyMetricsExecution
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Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric