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29.1 Issue Tree - What It Is - Upload Version
29.1 Issue Tree - What It Is - Upload Version
to use it?
Practical guide with examples
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What is an issue
tree?
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Issue tree is one of the most important tools
used in management consulting
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Issue tree is a concept that will help you guess in a structured
manner the problems, reasons causing those problems and on
the basis of this decide what should be analyzed
Analysis to be
Area of analysis Suspected problems Possible reasons performed
Problem 1
Area 1
Problem 2
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It helps you do a lot of things….
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Let’s have a look at
examples of issue trees
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We will start with an example of
logistics in a chicken producer…
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Have a look at an issue tree example for a chicken meat
producer. We guess that he has 3 problems in Logistics
Analysis to be
Area of analysis Suspected problems Possible reasons performed
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Then for those problems we try to guess the reasons causing them
Analysis to be
Area of analysis Suspected problems Possible reasons performed
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Finally we come up with analyzes we have to carry to prove or
disprove these hypotheses (that certain reason is causing certain
problem
Analysis to be
Area of analysis Suspected problems Possible reasons performed
Analysis of designed routes, their
Badly designed routes length and the influence of possible
changes
High costs of transport per ton of Analysis of fuel usage and kilometers
Too big fuel usage
goods covered by vehicles
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When you are talking about Retail you should
have a look a the following areas
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Below you can see example of issue tree in Retail
Chain Development
Analysis to be
Area of analysis Suspected problems Possible reasons performed
Low LFL due to cannibalization (on- Analyze the change in sales after opening
line, new stores in old locations) new stores / on-line introduction
No support from the shopping malls Analysis of contracts with shopping malls
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Below you can see example of issue tree for Retail
where we cover Product Range Management
Analysis to be
Area of analysis Suspected problems Possible reasons performed
Too many supplier of Category A that Analyze of number of suppliers and their
undermines your purchasing power share in sales vs market
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