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Criterion
Paper illustration of Futures Wheel with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Futures Wheel
Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
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.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLow
Timedifferent
60-120 min15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-101-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Futures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic SignalsEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation Notes
Tagsno overlap
ForesightSystems thinkingSignals
PrioritizationFocusTasks
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Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper illustration for Pareto Analysis
Decision Making
Pareto Analysis
Paper illustration for ABC Analysis
Operations
ABC Analysis
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)