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Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Spotify Model Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Spotify Model Mapping
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.When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list.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
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h90-180 minHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-125-153-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsSpotify Model Map, Action ListLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Business Model Stress Test