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Paper illustration for Waste Analysis.
Operations
Waste Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
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.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.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLow
Timedifferent
45-120 min1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-86-30 Experten3-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Waste Map, Prioritized Waste, Improvement BacklogExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
WasteLeanProcess improvement
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ChangeDecisionStrategy
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