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| Criterion | ![]() Operations Bottleneck Analysis | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard | ![]() Product Strategy DIBB | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | StrategyMetricsExecution | StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



