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Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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.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.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.
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MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 hHalf day60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change ActionsLeverage Map, Action StrategyConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments
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OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
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Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
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Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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Product Strategy
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