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Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.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
HighLowHigh
Timedifferent
Half day60–90 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-122-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Leverage Map, Action StrategyStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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Decision Making
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