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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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.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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-4 Wochen2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
16-30 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
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Systems Thinking
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Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
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