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Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision 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.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h45-120 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-81-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
FlowMeasurementConstraints
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method