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Criterion
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Purposedifferent
Systems Mapping arranges elements, relationships, and boundaries so a complex field becomes legible at a glance. The overview stabilizes the overall picture before detail work or steering begins.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 Wochen1-2 hHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten2-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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