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Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Purposedifferent
For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.Systems Mapping arranges elements, relationships, and boundaries so a complex field becomes legible at a glance. The overview stabilizes the overall picture before detail work or steering begins.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 h1-3 hHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-83-123-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanSystem Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionSensemaking
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
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Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
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Decision Making
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