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Paper illustration for Soft Systems Methodology.
Systems Thinking
Soft Systems Methodology
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Purposedifferent
Soft Systems Methodology helps explore unclear or politically charged problems systematically. Instead of forcing a quick answer, the method builds a shared understanding of perspectives and room for action.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowHigh
Timedifferent
0.5-3 Tage30 min Setup, dann laufend1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
5-151-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Rich Picture, Root Definitions, Conceptual Models, Change AgendaRAID Log, Status Report SourceChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan
Tagsno overlap
Soft systemsComplexitySensemakingSystems thinking
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskDecisionSensemaking
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