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Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change Analysis
Purposedifferent
Intervention Mapping translates a need for change into a planned, evaluable program. The method connects target group, determinants, actions, and measurement into a traceable chain.When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage30–60 min per interview45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
4-121 participant per interview2-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Logic Model, Change Objectives, Intervention Components, Evaluation PlanInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List
Tagsno overlap
ChangeSystems thinkingCapability
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
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