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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration of Futures Wheel with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Futures Wheel
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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.The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing60-120 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-203-101-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesFutures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic SignalsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
ForesightSystems thinkingSignals
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
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Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming