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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 VUCA Scan with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
VUCA Scan
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
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.The VUCA Scan helps read difficult situations more precisely. Instead of treating unclarity as generally complicated, the method separates fast change, missing knowledge, systemic entanglement, and ambiguous interpretation.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighLowLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 TageHalf day30-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-123-121-103-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsLeverage Map, Action StrategyVUCA Map, Response Options, Signal and Learning PlanForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes
Tags1 shared
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
SensemakingUncertaintyComplexityStrategyForesight
ChangeDecisionStrategy
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