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Fishbone (Ishikawa) templates
Native root-cause analysis. Declare a `problem`, then `category` / `cause` blocks; the backbone, ribs, and cause branches render as crisp SVG. Categories alternate above and below the backbone, automatically scaled to fit. The standard tool for 5-Whys, Six Sigma, and incident reviews.
Fishbone — late delivery (6 Ms)
Classic 6 Ms root-cause for a late-shipment incident.
Operations & OpsFishbone — production bug
Engineering post-mortem framing for a regression that hit prod.
Operations & OpsFishbone — low signup conversion
Growth analysis of why visitors aren't converting.
Business & StrategyFishbone — manufacturing defect rate
Six Sigma framing for a QA escape on the line.
Operations & OpsFishbone — customer churn
Root-causes behind rising month-over-month logo churn.
Business & StrategyFishbone — site outage
Reliability framing for a Tier-1 outage retrospective.
Operations & OpsFishbone — meeting fatigue
Org-health diagnosis of why meetings are exhausting the team.
Business & StrategyFishbone — poor UX scores
Product analysis behind falling SUS / NPS / CSAT scores.
Business & StrategyFishbone — slow hiring funnel
Why offers aren't getting accepted at the senior level.
Business & StrategyFishbone — pipeline throughput
Engineering velocity diagnosis when the team is stuck.
Operations & OpsFishbone — event attendance drop
Marketing diagnosis of webinar / event sign-up collapse.
Business & StrategyFishbone — slow study enrolment
Clinical-trial framing for under-target enrolment.
Research & AcademicFishbone — financial restatement
Audit-readiness analysis for a Q4 restatement.
Operations & OpsFishbone — falling test scores
Education-research framing for a school-level achievement drop.
Research & AcademicQA Failures (Fishbone)
Root-cause analysis of units failing QA.
Operations & OpsCustomer Churn (Fishbone)
Why customers leave, grouped by cause.
Business & StrategySlow Website (Fishbone)
Causes of slow page loads across the stack.
Operations & OpsDeclining Sales (Fishbone)
Causes of falling sales across the marketing mix.
Business & StrategyProject Delay (Fishbone)
Why a project is slipping its schedule.
Project & PlanningHigh Bug Rate (Fishbone)
Root causes of a high defect rate.
Operations & OpsWorkplace Accidents (Fishbone)
Contributing causes of safety incidents.
Operations & OpsFishbone — Short-Notice Train Cancellations
Root-cause analysis of short-notice cancellations on a commuter route, grouped by traincrew, fleet, infrastructure, planning, information and external causes.
Operations & OpsFishbone — Day-of-Surgery Cancellations
Ishikawa analysis of elective operations cancelled on the day at a district general hospital, split across patient, bed, staffing, list planning, equipment and preoperative assessment causes.
Lean & FlowFishbone — Fraud Model Precision Drop
Root-cause analysis of a card fraud model whose precision fell six points in a quarter, grouped across data, features, labels, serving, monitoring and the fraud population itself.
AI & PipelinesPharmaceutical Batch Deviation (Fishbone)
Six-M root cause analysis of a tablet batch failing dissolution, spanning operator sign-off, granule hold time and suite humidity.
Risk & ReliabilityOn-Time In-Full Miss (Fishbone)
Why OTIF fell to 88 percent against a 96 percent target, grouped along the plan-source-make-deliver chain rather than the classic six Ms.
Lean & FlowUncertainty Cause-and-Effect — NaOH Standardised Against KHP
Eurachem/CITAC cause-and-effect (Ishikawa) diagram enumerating every uncertainty source in the standardisation of a 0.1 mol/L NaOH titrant against potassium hydrogen phthalate, the first step of a GUM measurement uncertainty budget.
Scientific Plots