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Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
A paper-based illustration representing OKRs with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Strategy
OKRs
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.When strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review.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.
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Timedifferent
2-4 h workshop plus review1-2 h Setup2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
4-102-203-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesOKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadenceCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper objective sheet with five SMART fields, baseline, target, owner, deadline and a complete result statement.
Product Strategy
SMART Goals
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis