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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Purposedifferent
The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work.For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput.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
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-3 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
13-84-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveBottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
FlowMeasurementConstraints
StrategyMetricsExecution
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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
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done