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Criterion
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.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.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h2-4 hMultiple workshops over several weeks60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-82-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
GrowthBehaviorRetention
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
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