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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Operations Fishbone Diagram |  Operations Gemba Walk |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. | When there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 30-60 min | 30-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog | Observation Notes, Improvement Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | Root causeQualityOperations | LeanObservationProcessOperations |
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