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Driver Diagram
Clarify your theory of improvement — and how you'll get there.
ABOUT
USE CASES
The Driver Diagram helps teams visually break down a high-level goal into primary and secondary drivers—factors believed to contribute to that goal—and connect them to specific, testable change ideas. It’s a foundational tool in improvement science that makes complex systems more actionable.
Map out the drivers contributing to increased CTE program completion.
Align workgroup efforts by showing how individual strategies ladder up.
Use as a roadmap for testing small changes.
VALUE
Aligns teams around a shared improvement strategy.
Breaks big goals into manageable components.
Bridges the gap between theory and actionable steps.
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