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Paper illustration for TOWS Matrix.
Business Strategy
TOWS Matrix
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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MORT Analysis
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
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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.For a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
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1-2 hMehrere Tage bis Wochen2-6 h
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WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
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TOWS Matrix, Strategic Options, Priority ActionsMORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic RecommendationsCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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Root causeSafetySystemicIncident
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
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Theory of Constraints Thinking Process