Cognitive Scaffold

Preparing your thinking workspace

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MENTAL MODEL · M6446

Ishikawa

Ishikawa
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

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SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

psychology

Reduce cognitive load

Exhaustively enumerate variables. When problems arise, don't just blame "luck" or "a certain person." 5M1E forces you to scan the entire system, often revealing the true culprit hidden in "environment" or "process."

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Anchor fast decisions

Based on "system attribution" and "fishbone diagram." The causes of quality problems are distributed across six dimensions: Man, Machine, Material, Method, Measurement, and Environment. Scanning each dimension one by one avoids attributing to a single factor and helps find the controllable root cause.

MINIMUM ACTION

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