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Criterion
Paper illustration of an activity-role table with clear RACI assignments and one highlighted accountable role per activity.
Operations
RACI Matrix
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
With unclear responsibilities across several roles or areas, the method creates unambiguous accountability logic. It reduces friction because decision, execution, contribution, and information become separately visible.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-8 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-82-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
RACI Matrix, Responsibility Map, Decision NotesProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk PlanExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
RolesResponsibilityGovernanceOperations
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
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Decision Making
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