Causal diagram

Draw the factors as boxes and the influences between them as signed arrows, plus the loops that feed back on themselves and the lags. Use it when you need to know what drives what, and where one small push moves the most.

Draw the factors as boxes and the influences between them as signed arrows, plus the loops that feed back on themselves and the lags. Use it when you need to know what drives what, and where one small push moves the most.

Example

The vendor thread keeps reopening. Diagram it: more open questions raises reply volume, which raises thread length, which raises the cost of finding earlier answers, which raises open questions again. The loop shows the leverage point is answering in the shared table, not in message 31.