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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Responsibility Poker | ![]() Operations Causal Factor Analysis | ![]() Operations Accountability Ladder | ![]() Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences. | For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events. | With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on. | A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2-6 h | 20-45 min | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 1-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open Questions | Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation | CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality |



