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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.
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Timedifferent
45-90 minHalf day45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
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Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesLeverage Map, Action StrategyForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk NotesCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
ChangeDecisionStrategy
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
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