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| Criterion |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Operations Kepner-Tregoe |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations. | When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2-8 h | 1-4 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |