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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-3 h60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1-202-84-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesIssue Map, Positions, Argument NotesDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan
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SignalsOperationsVisual management
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis