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Criterion
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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 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.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.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
MediumMediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 hMultiple workshops over several weeks2-4 hHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-122-83-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
GrowthBehaviorRetention
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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