Organizational Root-Cause Analysis And What-If Modeling

ORCA Canvas™

(c) 2023 by Denis Sunny and Ralph Jocham

Benefits

By studying and practicing ORCA Canvas™, depending on your organizational role, you will get equipped with a structured and guided approach to individually or collectively achieve the following.

Top & Senior Management

Insightful Analysis: Gain a clear understanding of factors within your control that influence organizational culture and outcomes.

Strategic Changes: Identify actionable changes to drive the desired shifts in culture and business results.

Impact Modeling: Assess the potential effects and unintended consequences of proposed changes on organizational dynamics.

Change Agents

Enhanced Reasoning: Strengthen your argumentation for organizational changes with clear visualizations of their impacts on the aspects of primary interests for your opponents - e.g. business outcomes.

Root-Cause Identification: Unearth the underlying causes of disagreements to focus efforts on the most impactful areas.

Common Ground Discovery: Find areas of agreement with adversaries to explore alternative strategies for promoting change.

Facilitators

(e.g., Scrum Master, Agile Coach)

Workshop Facilitation: Conduct effective and efficient workshops on Root-Cause-Analysis and What-If-Modelling involving decision-makers and using provided tailor-made tools.

Decision-Maker Engagement: Clearly illustrate how proposed changes will affect crucial organizational outcomes to guide decision-making.

Conflict Resolution: Identify areas of disagreement among participants and explore their hidden drivers (e.g. beliefs and assumptions) to formulate actionable plans for resolution.

ORCA Canvases

ORCA Canvas and ORCA XL Canvas

Blanks tailored for Miro and Mural

  • PDF-based, virtually limitless expandability

  • Never forget the meaning of your special diagramming elements - thanks to the legend attached

  • Just copy-paste them from our Miro - PLUG & PLAY.

Printable Blanks

Although, these are not that useful in the digital format, they are adapted for standard printable A-formats (A4, A3, etc.)

Guided Versions

Provides guidance directly within the sections of the canvases. Available in the printable format and adapted for Miro.

Real-Life Examples

Real-life examples of use cases. Available in the printable format and adapted for Miro. In the latter case, you can get fully editable versions... to PLUG & PLAY.

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ORCA Canvas™ © 2023 by Denis Sunny, Ralph Jocham

is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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