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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Product Strategy DIBB |  Operations Fishbone Diagram |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report. | When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis | Root causeQualityOperations | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |