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Criterion
Paper illustration for VMGS
Business Strategy
VMGS
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
VMGS arranges vision, mission, goals, and strategies into a clear guiding logic. Direction, purpose, and priorities are connected so teams can decide more coherently.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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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
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Timedifferent
2-4 hHalf day1-4 Wochen2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-123-126-30 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesLeverage Map, Action StrategyExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
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VisionGoalsStrategy
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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