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Paper illustration of Three Horizons with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Three Horizons
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
Purposedifferent
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.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-123-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource planProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
Tagsno overlap
StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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