Visual Strategy: Strategy Mapping for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Glossary

Boundary object

A conceptual or material object outside of the group that is fairly stable and helps guide or manage negotiations and movements across boundaries of some kind. A finalized strategy map or strategic plan can be a boundary object for the rest of the organization as strategies are negotiated and implemented across organizational boundaries of various kinds, for example, departmental, divisional, or organizational-external environmental boundaries. A boundary object can be a “transitional object” (see Transitional object), but typically has more permanence to it.

Causal cluster

A relatively small network of statements and causal links that represent an “island” of linked material with relatively few links to other causal ...