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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
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.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend5-15 min2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
11-52-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
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KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
StartupValidationCompetition
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
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Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
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