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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-5 Tage60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
1Nutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
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KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S