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| Criterion |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-120 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |
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