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Criterion
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Purposedifferent
When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.
Complexitydifferent
LowHigh
Timedifferent
15-45 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1-104-12
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
StrategyMetricsExecution
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree