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Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
3-85-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresRanked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority
Tagsno overlap
FlowMeasurementConstraints
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Facilitation
Dot Voting
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
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Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints.
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Theory of Constraints