🧭 Situation

Unclear direction or strategy

60 curated tools for this situation — sorted by evidence level.

Assessment Research-based
Denison Model Links culture measurement to business results — the business case for culture work before the board.
👥 10–1000 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 Remote / Async
Framework Practice-validated
Ansoff Matrix Sorts growth options by market and product novelty — revealing the risk per direction.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
BCG Matrix Sorts the portfolio by market growth and market share — a basis for resource reallocation.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
Blue Ocean Four Actions (ERRC) Forces strategy as sacrifice: what do we eliminate, reduce, raise, create?
👥 3–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practice-validated
Business Model Canvas Makes a complete business model visible and discussable on one page.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Cynefin Framework Distinguishes simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic — preventing best-practice recipes in the wrong context.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
GE-McKinsey Matrix Evaluates business units with more nuance than the BCG matrix — nine cells with weighted criteria.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
GRPI Model Diagnoses team problems in the right order: goals first, then roles, processes, relationships.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 60–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Impact Mapping Connects business goals via actors and behavior changes to concrete deliverables — exposing features without goal contribution.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practice-validated
Lean Canvas Focuses new business ideas on problem, solution, and the riskiest assumptions.
👥 1–6 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practice-validated
Mission Model Canvas Translates BMC logic for non-profits: mission instead of margin as the measure of success.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
OKR Framework Translates strategy into measurable quarterly goals with objectives and key results.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practice-validated
Operating Model Canvas Makes visible how the organization delivers value: processes, structure, locations, suppliers, IT.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 6 hrs 📍 In person / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Opportunity Solution Tree Connects product outcome, opportunities, and solution ideas in one tree — preventing pet solutions without goal linkage.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
PESTLE Analysis Systematically scans the macro environment: politics, economy, society, technology, legal, environment.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practice-validated
Product Vision Board Puts product vision, target group, needs, and business goals on one page.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Product-Market-Fit Honestly checks whether a product creates real market pull — before scaling.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
St. Gallen Business Model Navigator Innovates business models systematically by recombining 55+ proven patterns.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
Stacey Matrix Orders initiatives by clarity of requirements and solution path — choosing the fitting approach.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practice-validated
Strategy Canvas Draws the value curves of the competition, showing where differentiation really happens.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
SWOT Analysis Creates a fast, shared situational picture of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practice-validated
Team Canvas Clarifies a team's foundations in one workshop: goals, roles, values, and rules.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Value Chain Map Maps the value chain, showing where value is created — and where it leaks.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
Wardley Mapping Makes the evolution of your playing field visible — from genesis to commodity.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
X-Matrix (Hoshin Kanri) Links long-term goals, annual objectives, initiatives, and KPIs in one matrix — strategy becomes cascadable.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 1 day 📍 In person / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Agile Lean Leadership Canvas Builds the business case for agile leadership: why, what changes, how do we measure it?
👥 2–10 ⏱ 2.5 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Agile Planning Onion Orders planning into nested horizons — from vision and roadmap to sprint and day.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
AI Governance Canvas Introduces responsible AI governance: goals, risks, ethics, and compliance on one canvas.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
AI Opportunity Radar Identifies and prioritizes AI use cases across the company on one radar.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practitioner heuristic
AI Strategy Framework Develops a company-wide AI strategy with clear action fields instead of isolated solutions.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Toolkit Practitioner heuristic
Business Model Kit Builds business models hands-on from visual building blocks — fast, playful, discussable.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Business Transformation Canvas Plans digital transformation holistically across ten elements — from operating model to culture.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 6 hrs 📍 In person / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Canvas Kommunikation (WKO) Plans SME communication compactly: goals, audiences, and measures on one canvas.
👥 1–8 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Capability Map Structures what the organization must be able to do — independent of who does it how today.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Methode Practitioner heuristic
Collaborative Foresight for Teams Develops future images as a team and translates them into today's decisions and actions.
👥 4–15 ⏱ 6 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Compass – Canvas for Changing Capabilities Analyzes and develops organizational capabilities specifically for transformation programs.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Digital Business Model Canvas Adapts business model logic to digital offerings of culture and heritage organizations.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Assessment Practitioner heuristic
Disruption Risk Assessment Systematically assesses how vulnerable your business model is to disruption.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Methodensammlung Practitioner heuristic
FSG Systems Thinking Toolkit Analyzes complex systems with actor mapping, ecocycle, timeline, and trend mapping — before intervening.
👥 4–20 ⏱ 6 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Hypothesis-Driven Problem Solving Starts with an answer hypothesis and tests it deliberately — instead of endlessly open analysis.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Innovation Blueprint Spans the complete innovation process from idea to scaling in one frame.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 2 days 📍 In person / Hybrid
Matrix Practitioner heuristic
Innovation Matrix Sorts innovation projects by novelty and risk — revealing portfolio imbalances.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Innovation Strategy Canvas (ITONICS) Structures an innovation strategy with vision, focus fields, roadmap, and governance.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practitioner heuristic
MECE Framework Structures problems without overlap and exhaustively — the basis of clean analyses.
👥 1–6 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Async
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Platform Canvas Models platform business models with their participants, interactions, and network effects.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Platform Navigator Analyzes and develops platform business models along actors, transactions, and network effects.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Problem Statement Canvas Defines the problem precisely before solutions are discussed — half the battle of any problem solving.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Release Planning Canvas Plans releases iteratively: goals, features, risks, and dependencies on one canvas.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Flowchart Practitioner heuristic
Revenue Model Flowchart B2B Leads via decision tree to the fitting B2B revenue model.
👥 1–6 ⏱ 30–60 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Async
Flowchart Practitioner heuristic
Revenue Model Flowchart B2C Leads via decision tree to the fitting B2C revenue model.
👥 1–6 ⏱ 30–60 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Async
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
S3 Organization Canvas Explores your organizational model along purpose, principles, and accountability domains.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Social Change Wheel 2.0 Toolkit Reflects on the pathways change works through — from direct service to systems change — and mixes deliberately.
👥 3–15 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Target Operating Model (TOM) Describes the organization's target state concretely enough to make transformation gaps plannable.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 1 day 📍 In person / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Team Alignment Map Aligns a team before project start on shared goals, commitments, risks, and resources.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Three Waves of AI Framework Orders AI initiatives into three waves: efficiency, augmentation, transformation — making the maturity path plannable.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Transformation Discovery Compass Finds out where a transformation is truly blocked — and which decision changes the system.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 1 day 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Methodensammlung Practitioner heuristic
Transformative Innovation Policy Toolkit Provides transformative innovation methods aiming for system change instead of point solutions.
👥 3–15 ⏱ 1 day 📍 In person / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Transformative Theory of Change Canvas Develops a transformative theory of change: context, levers, actors, and outcomes connected.
👥 3–15 ⏱ 6 hrs 📍 In person / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Trend & Technology Radar Visualizes trends and technologies by relevance and time horizon — as a living radar instead of a one-off study.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Trend Mapping Canvas Identifies and evaluates relevant trends as a basis for strategic innovation decisions.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid

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