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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving
Purposedifferent
When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.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 an acute quality or delivery problem, the method structures immediate protection and root cause work together. It keeps the situation stable while the actual cause is investigated cleanly.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowHigh
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview60-90 min1-6 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview4-104-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action Plan
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
QualityProblem solvingRoot cause
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Root Cause Analysis
Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming