Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by gathering insights, extracting tensions, and using them as ideation prompts.
Core question: How do we reformulate our insights and pain points into open opportunity questions that trigger ideation without prescribing a solution?
Workshop methodMethod form: Workshop method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
10-20 min
1-10
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Product DiscoveryCategory: Product Discovery. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence into a tangible result through setting the focus question, gathering stakeholders and context, and deriving open questions and next steps.
Core question: Which context, environment, stakeholders, trends, constraints, and assumptions shapes our initiative, and where do the most important open questions arise?
CanvasMethod form: Canvas. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
45-90 min
3-10
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by selecting a situation, drawing actors and issues, and discussing insights.
Core question: What picture of the situation emerges when actors, topics, tensions, structures and moods become visible at the same time?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.WorkshopFormat: workshop. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
30-90 min
2-10
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Decision MakingCategory: Decision Making. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns options, criteria, and risks into a tangible result by naming an initiative, defining desired impact, and selecting the next smallest step.
Core question: Is this initiative worth starting now, and if so what is the smallest next step?
Decision methodMethod form: Decision method. Describes how this method is used in practice.LowComplexity: low. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.
20-45 min
1-6
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Systems ThinkingCategory: Systems Thinking. Describes the method's domain of use.
Turns relationships, patterns, and leverage points into a tangible result by describing the situation, identifying customers and actors, and deriving environmental boundaries and a root definition.
Core question: Which system definition fits the situation once customers, actors, transformation, worldview, owner, and environmental constraints are explicit?
Mapping toolMethod form: Mapping tool. Describes how this method is used in practice.MediumComplexity: medium. Estimates preparation, facilitation effort, and method confidence needed.Workshop + asyncFormat: workshop or async. Shows whether the method works in a workshop, asynchronously, or both.