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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper illustration for Troika Consulting.
Facilitation
Troika Consulting
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Purposedifferent
When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time.When someone needs to sort out a concrete work problem, Troika Consulting offers fast peer consulting with a tight focus. The method brings perspectives together without taking responsibility out of the person's hands.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-45 min60-90 min2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
2-123-304-102-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesAdvice Notes, Next Actions, Peer InsightsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
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TimelineFacilitationSequence
FacilitationCoachingLearning
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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