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Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field 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.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.
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Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
RiskDecisionSensemaking
ChangeDecisionStrategy
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Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
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Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
Decision Making
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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
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Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
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