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Situation report

A situation report condenses the reviewed knowledge of a period into a summary, signals, hypotheses with a counter-hypothesis and open questions. Every statement carries at least one piece of evidence from approved knowledge; statements without evidence are discarded. A situation report prepares decisions and makes none. It can be approved and downloaded as a PowerPoint file.

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Situation report

Last 30 days

Signals

Rush orders go through two approvals.

Evidence 1Evidence 2

Hypotheses

The second approval lengthens delivery time.

Counter-hypothesis

Delivery time depends on production, not on the approval.

medium confidence

Open questions

Does the rule also apply to spare parts?

PPTX · Download as PowerPoint

Fig. 1 Reviewed knowledge from the departments becomes a situation report: summary, signals with evidence, hypothesis and counter-hypothesis, open questions and a PowerPoint file.

Create and approve a situation reportChoose period and department, click “Create report”, check the result and confirm it with “Approve”.Evidence and counter-hypothesesEvery statement in a situation report names the knowledge entries it is based on; every hypothesis stands next to a counter-hypothesis.Situation report as PowerPointUse “Download as PowerPoint” to download a situation report as a finished widescreen presentation.