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Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Three Horizons with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Three Horizons
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.Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon.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
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Timedifferent
1-3 hHalbtags-Workshop, dann iterativHalf day
Participantssame
3-123-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsHorizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource planLeverage Map, Action Strategy
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
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Ansoff Matrix
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Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas
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Business Strategy
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Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
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