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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Troika Consulting | ![]() Operations Causal Factor Analysis | ![]() Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | 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 | High |
Timedifferent | 30-45 min | 2-6 h | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-30 | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Advice Notes, Next Actions, Peer Insights | Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationCoachingLearning | CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality |
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