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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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.
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Timedifferent
Ongoing30-90 min1-4 Wochen2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
1-201-66-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
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Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
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SignalsOperationsVisual management
DecisionTreeOptions
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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