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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
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 keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
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Timedifferent
Ongoing1-2 h1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
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SignalsOperationsVisual management
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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