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The seven-step model

A thinking model for analysing and planning projects, processes, organisational groups and organisations and for shaping their identity, which shows the way to a correct and complete plan through 7 groups of questions.

The concept in brief

  1. The 7 defining groups of questions: identity, concepts, defining resources and quality levels, building the system of ideas, implementation questions, and creating transparency.

  2. It is suitable for defining a project, a main process, an organisational group or an entire organisation.

  3. Visualising the questions and topics, which build on one another, supports planning.

Figure

  1. 7Transparency
  2. 6Implementation
  3. 5Ideas
  4. 4Quality levels
  5. 3Resources
  6. 2Concepts
  7. 1Identity
The seven-step model · Redrawn from page 35 of the Book of Concepts; labels translated.

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