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Criterion
Paper illustration of Futures Wheel with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Futures Wheel
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Purposedifferent
The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
60-120 min1-2 h30 min Setup, dann laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-104-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-15
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Futures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic SignalsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceROAM Board, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
ForesightSystems thinkingSignals
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
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