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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | High | High |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | Half day | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | StrategyMetricsExecution | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange |