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Criterion
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 Wochen60-120 min90-180 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-86-30 Experten4-103-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanKPI Tree, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
FlowMeasurementConstraints
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement
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