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Criterion
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Purposedifferent
When several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.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.For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.
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Timedifferent
1-3 hHalf day2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-83-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary NotesLeverage Map, Action StrategyEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
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Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
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Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Barrier Analysis