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Systems Thinking

Systems Mapping

Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by setting system boundaries, collecting components, and deriving leverage points.

Core question: Which components, actors and relationships form the system, where are boundaries, and which levers are changeable inside boundary?

Mapping toolMediumWorkshop + async
1-3 h
3-12

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Facilitation

Stakeholder Mapping

Turns options, selection, and decisions into a tangible result by listing stakeholders, assessing influence and interest, and planning next conversations.

Core question: Who is affected by the initiative, who influences success, and which relationship must be maintained with whom, at which frequency and message?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop + async
30-60 min
2-8

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Decision Making

Force Field Analysis

Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by describing the change objective, collecting driving forces, and deriving interventions.

Core question: Which forces drive the desired change and which restrain it, and which interventions most strongly shift the balance?

Mapping toolLowWorkshop
45-90 min
3-12

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Business Strategy

McKinsey 7S

Clarifies starting point, opportunities, and strategic options by framing the scope and target state, capturing the seven elements, and deriving change actions.

Core question: Which seven S are not aligned and which tension most strongly threatens execution of the strategy?

Analysis methodMediumWorkshop
2-4 h
3-12

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Operations

Change Analysis

Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by describing the deviation, choosing a comparison case, and deriving causes and actions.

Core question: Which differences between should and is explain the observed deviation, and which of those differences are causal, contributing, or random?

Analysis methodMediumWorkshop + async
45-120 min
2-6

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Systems Thinking

Future Reality Tree

Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by formulating the planned change, deriving desired effects, and refining and safeguarding the solution.

Core question: Do the planned changes plausibly lead to desired effects, and which negative branches must be protected against?

Mapping toolHighWorkshop
2-4 h
3-8

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Systems Thinking

Intervention Mapping

Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by analyzing the problem and target group, defining change objectives, and planning implementation and evaluation.

Core question: Which intervention fits problem, target group, behavior, context, and evaluation?

Process modelHighWorkshop + async
1-5 Tage
4-12

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Systems Thinking

Leverage Points

Moves relationships, patterns, and leverage toward a concrete result through "introduce the twelve leverage points", "collect planned actions", and "formulate a strategy across multiple levers".

Core question: Which leverage levels address our planned actions, and which higher-level levers would produce stronger impact?

Mapping toolHighWorkshop
Half day
3-12

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