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Criterion
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
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.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.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.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.
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Timedifferent
2-4 h60-120 min1-4 WochenHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-122-86-30 Experten3-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change ActionsConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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