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Criterion
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
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.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.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
MediumMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h60-120 minMultiple workshops over several weeksHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-122-82-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
GrowthBehaviorRetention
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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