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Criterion
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30 min Setup, dann laufend2-4 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsRAID Log, Status Report SourceFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
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