Modelling and Decision Support Tools - Alphabetic Index

This index lists modelling and decision support tools in alphabetic order:

A - C

• Affinity Charting
• Analytical Hierarchy Process
• Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton)
• Benchmarking
• Boston Plot (see also Product life cycle model below)
• Brainstorming
• Capabilities and Competencies
• Capability and Maturity - Hayes and Wheelwright's Four Stages
• Cause and Effect Diagram, Fishbone, Ishikawa Diagram
• Check Sheets and Check Lists
• Clustering Processes
• Conflict Analysis
• Control Charts
• Corporate Strategy
• Cost / Benefit / Risk Analysis
• Criteria Rating Form, Weighted Ranking
• Customer Surveys and Interviews

D - F

• Data Sources
• Decision Trees
• Deming Cycle (Plan, do, check, act)
• Deming's 14 points
• Drawing Packages
• Finite Capacity Scheduling
• Flexibility Framework
• Flow Charts
• Force field Analysis
• From/to Chart

G - I

• Gap Analysis
• Graphs, Gantt, Histograms and Bar charts
• Hewlett-Packard Return Map
• Histogram or Bar Graph
• Importance / Performance Matrix
• Innovation Funnel

J - L

• JIT (Just-In-Time)
• Kanban

M - O

• Manufacturing Decision Areas
• Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII)
• Marketing, 4Ps of
• Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Matrices
• Matrix 2x2
• Media for Communication
• Mintzberg's 5 Ps for Strategy

P - R

• Pareto Principle
• Polar charts, Radar charts
• Porter's 5 Forces
• Porter's Generic Competitive Strategies (ways of competing)
• Porter's Value Chain
• 4 Ps of marketing
• Product Life Cycle (See Boston Plot above)
• Quality Framework
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Quality, Time, Cost & Flexibility
• Quantitative Decision Making
• Robustness Analysis

S - U

• Sensitivity Analysis
• Scatter Plots
• Strategic Options Development and Analysis (SODA)
• Soft Systems Methodology
• Spreadsheets and databases
• Statistical Process Control
• Statistical Software
• Strategic Assessment Model
• Strategic Assumptions Surfacing and Testing
• Strategic Choice Approach
• SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
• Time Framework
• TQM Tools
• Trade-off Models

V - Z