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Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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.When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-123-103-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsResponsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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Facilitation
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Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
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Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
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