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| Criterion |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Operations Barrier Analysis |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | For a risk that can only be managed through multiple layers of protection, the method examines the effectiveness of each barrier. It shows where safeguards are missing, too weak, or fail under real conditions. | When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 2-4 h | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Barrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action Backlog | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan |
Tagsno overlap | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | Root causeSafetyIncident | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident |
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