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Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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.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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Half dayOngoing1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-122-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Leverage Map, Action StrategyKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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