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Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.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.When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.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
0.5-2 TageHalf day45-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsLeverage Map, Action StrategyImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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