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Paper illustration for TOWS Matrix.
Business Strategy
TOWS Matrix
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping
Purposedifferent
The TOWS Matrix connects internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats into action-oriented strategies. It goes a step further than a pure stocktaking.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h60-120 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-104-103-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
TOWS Matrix, Strategic Options, Priority ActionsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanKnowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan
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StrategyAnalysisOptions
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
KnowledgeMappingRisk
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Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
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Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Business Model Stress Test
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping