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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Strategy OKRs |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 30-90 min | 1-2 h Setup | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 2-20 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures |
Tagsno overlap | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | FlowMeasurementConstraints |