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Paper illustration of Family Tree Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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Family Tree Analysis
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring.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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2-4 h2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-63-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop
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Family Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic MeasuresCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
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Causal Factor Analysis
Iceberg Model method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Iceberg Model
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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MORT Analysis
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
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Theory of Constraints Thinking Process