models for managing - tools

• Belbin's team roles model for group work.
• Brainstorming (vocal)
• Brain writing (silent) - aka Crawford slip idea capture.
• Bubble sort (manual) - pairwise swap, most valuable bubble up.
• CAR : Causal Analysis and Resolution - an area from the CMMI; a document for planning and capturing audit of a 'practice area'
• CMMI - in fact a framework, an entire philosophy, structure and suite of tools
• Entity relationship diagram (ERD)
• Facts (blue), opinions (yellow), assumptions (pink)
• Fishbone diagram (linear, cause-effect, event-consequence-response)
• Five Forces: threat of new entrants, threat of substitutes, bargaining power of customers, bargaining power of suppliers, industry rivalry
• How how diagram (action tree)
• Mindmap
• Nominal group method (anonymous voting)
• PESTLE analysis : political, economic, social and technological influences on business.
• Relations diagram (free-form nodes, connections, directions)
• Relations (chain, cycle/circle, source/origin, stock/sink, network).
• Six Thinking Hats method : Edward de Bono's approach for lateral, creative, brainstorming. 
• SWOT : strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
• Technological, Organizational, and Environmental (TOE) framework
• Tree diagram (top-down, bottom-up, star, comb, left-right, right-left)
• Value chain mapping of top-line (primary) and bottom-line (support) activities/processes. Examples of primary value adding processes might include: sourcing, receiving storing and processing raw materials; making the product/service; marketing, selling, delivering, maintaining. Examples of value supporting processes might include: general management; accounting; human resources management, finance capability; building and facilities; purchasing; R&D functions.
• VER : Verification - an area from the CMMI; a document for capturing verification of an audit area
• VRIO : Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization.
• Why why diagram (problem tree)

Writing Exercise (I & II)

(an exercise working from 'writing prompts')

The purpose of my paper is...

The audience for my paper is...

I ask...

What does it mean when...?

I use...

...is an interesting problem!

The major contribution of my paper is...

The main argument in my paper is...

My key contribution is...

My <one, two, three...> key arguments are...

There is a gap in the literature on...

This paper will be particularly useful for...

This is important because...

I want to...

Analysis discussion questions...

That's odd

What we didn't expect to find was...

The situation/claim/data is puzzling.

I was puzzled by...

I didn't expect to find...

It is interesting because we can now...

It is impactful because we will be able to...

Counter-intuitively we found that...

Contrary to what we expected we found that...