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Criterion
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
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Kepner-Tregoe
Purposedifferent
When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.
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Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen30-90 min2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
6-30 Experten1-62-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
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ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionTreeOptions
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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8D Problem Solving
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
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A3 Problem Solving
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis