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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.In a week with many open loops, the method creates distance from operational noise. It organizes commitments, calendar, and projects so the next week becomes workable.When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowLow
Timedifferent
OngoingHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen30-60 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-204-1212-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapUpdated Task System, Weekly Focus, Next ActionsCounter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
StrategyMetricsExecution
ProductivityExecutionPlanning
MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments
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