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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Purposedifferent
When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.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.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufendHalf day1-2 h2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder3-124-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentLeverage Map, Action StrategyAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
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