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Criterion
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
OngoingHalf day2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
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Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsLeverage Map, Action StrategyFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
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FlowVisual managementDelivery
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S