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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2-6 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |
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