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Criterion
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration of a Strategy Canvas with several value curves
Business Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas
Purposedifferent
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.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed.
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Half day1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen60-120 min2-4 h
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Leverage Map, Action StrategyProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsStrategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
InnovationPrototypeResearch
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
StrategyPositioningInnovationValue
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