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Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.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.
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Timedifferent
60-120 min2-4 h2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-82-83-8
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WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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 for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree