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Criterion
Paper illustration for Waste Analysis.
Operations
Waste Analysis
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
For a process that keeps people busy but creates little value, the method exposes waste. It directs attention to unnecessary movement, waiting times, rework, and overdelivery.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighHigh
Timedifferent
45-120 min90-180 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-83-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Waste Map, Prioritized Waste, Improvement BacklogCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
WasteLeanProcess improvement
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis