Problem Solving Methods

15% Solutions
5 Why
5S tools to reveal problems
7QC tools
8D Report
A3 problem solving
A3 Report
Agreement-Certainty Matrix
Brainstorming
Charting software
Concept maps
Corrective Action
Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA)
Design Sprint 2.0
Discovery & Action Dialogue
DMAIC tools
Dotmocracy
Eight Disciplines of Problem Solving (8D)
Eight Disciplines Problem Solving
Experimental Action Plan
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Fishbone Analysis/Diagram
Flip It
Flowcharts
Four-Step Sketch
GROW model
Hansei Lean Thinking
Hive mind
How to Solve It
How-Now-Wow matrix
Idea maps
Impact Effort Matrix
Improved Solutions
Is Is Not Analysis
Journalists
Kaizen tools
Lateral thinking
Layered process audit software
Lean Kata
LEGO Challenge
Lightning Decision Jam
Mental maps
MindManager
Mindspin
OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, and act)
Open Space Technology
Pareto Chart
PDCA (plan–do–check–act)
PDCA template
Plan Do Check Act (PDCA)
Problem Definition Process
Problem Tree
Root cause analysis
RPR problem diagnosis (rapid problem resolution)
Scatter Diagram
Six Thinking Hats
Speed Boat
SQUID
Strategy maps
SWOT Analysis
System dynamics
The Creativity Dice
The Journalistic Six
TRIZ (in Russian: Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadach, “theory of solving inventor's problems”)
What, So What, Now What?
World Cafe