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Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
GAP Analysis
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Purposedifferent
GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-84-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk NotesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisPlanning
StrategyMetricsExecution
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
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Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done