1.7 Planning Tools | HL
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What is meant by a cause and effect (or fishbone) diagram?
What is a decision tree and why do businesses use this tool?
Distinguish between chance nodes and decision nodes when constructing decision trees.
Distinguish between driving forces and restraining forces in a force field analysis.
What are Gantt charts and why do project managers use them?
Decision Tree
What is the best alternative option?
The tool allows managers to calculate the expected value of each decision in order to plan the best option to follow.
Lewin's Force-Field Analysis
Change or not change?
Change management tool that focuses on factors working for and against a planned change in an organization.
Fishbone Diagram
What are the causes and effects?
An organizational planning tool based on identifying and dealing with the root causes of a problem or issue facing a business.
1.7 Fishbone.pdfGantt Chart
How to Monitor Progress?
A visual representation of all the tasks in a particular project plotted against the timescale. As a planning and scheduling tool, effective for time management