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Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
Purposedifferent
McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.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.In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten3-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change ActionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log
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OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionRolesGovernance
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Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
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OODA Loop