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Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list.For an acute quality or delivery problem, the method structures immediate protection and root cause work together. It keeps the situation stable while the actual cause is investigated cleanly.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
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Timedifferent
Wochen bis Monate je Goal1-6 Wochen60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-104-104-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action PlanProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
QualityProblem solvingRoot cause
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
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Kepner-Tregoe
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop