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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures |
Tagsno overlap | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | FlowMeasurementConstraints |
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