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Criterion
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper radar with five axes, two current and target profiles, and evidence cards beside each dimension.
Decision Making
Radar
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Purposedifferent
The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.When capabilities, maturity levels, or market positions need to be compared across several dimensions, overview is easily lost. Radar brings different characteristics into a shared picture and shows patterns faster than tables do.Systems Mapping arranges elements, relationships, and boundaries so a complex field becomes legible at a glance. The overview stabilizes the overall picture before detail work or steering begins.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
60-120 min1-2 h1-3 hHalf day
Participantsdifferent
2-82-103-123-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsRadar Map, Capability Scores, Action AreasSystem Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
AssessmentPortfolioCapability
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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