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Ten More Methods: Evidence to Execution
Problem-first navigation
What are you trying to do?
Start with the decision or problem. The method comes second.
Method library
Explore 66 practical methods
SWOT Analysis
Build an evidence-based SWOT analysis with a filled example, turn strengths and weaknesses into TOWS options, and assign actions and review dates.
PESTLE Analysis
Scan six macro-environment forces and translate external change into strategic implications and monitoring actions.
Porter’s Five Forces
Assess how industry structure distributes value among rivals, buyers, suppliers, substitutes and potential entrants.
Ansoff Matrix
Compare penetration, market development, product development and diversification with examples, capability gaps and a test for each growth option.
BCG Matrix
Calculate relative market share, classify a product portfolio and use a worked BCG matrix example to challenge investment assumptions.
Working Sessions
Working sessions that end with a decision
Choose a format by outcome, evidence, authority, time and uncertainty—then use an operational agenda, exercises and artifacts.
AI systems for small business
Improve one real workflow
Review, prototype, build and support reliable AI-assisted operations with clear human control.
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Fiction Lab
Explore strategy, leadership and organisational systems through speculative fiction—then test the ideas against real management tools and original cases.
Learn in a sequence that makes sense
Short lessons connect methods to the decisions they support. Choose a learning path to work through a connected sequence.
View all pathsStrategic Thinking Foundations
Distinguish external environment, industry structure, company position and growth options, then connect strategy to stakeholders and a governed measurement system.
Problem Solving Foundations
Separate symptoms from causes, build causal hypotheses and choose corrective actions.
Operational Excellence
Define process boundaries, see flow and constraints, design evidence-backed controls, calculate delivery dependencies and operate a governed pull system.
Guided practice
Apply the method to a realistic case
Move through evidence, constraints and a decision—not a quiz about abbreviations.
Trace invoice corrections to a new intake path
A shared-service team sees supplier invoice corrections rise after a new digital intake route launches. Leaders propose retraining all processors, while manual rework hides the channel pattern.
After Action Review: learn from a flood response
A flood response delivered supplies on time overall, yet two remote districts received the wrong medication. Dispatch logs and field reports disagree.
Assumption Mapping: applied decision
A museum plans an AI guide for visitors with limited vision. Staff assume voice output is the main barrier; visitor interviews have not yet tested navigation or consent concerns.