An analytical technique (analytical method) is a procedure or a method for the analysis of any problem, condition or a fact. Analytical techniques are usually time-limited and task-limited (used once to solve a specific issue) as opposed to management methods that affect management of the organization in a longer term.
In practice there are used a lot of quite simple analytical techniques that managers and analysts use during normal work. Often without naming it somehow. For such techniques, it is often enough just a system of “paper-pencil,” or general office equipment. They are based primarily on the experience of the person who uses them. There are also a number of specialized analytical techniques, which are overwhelmingly based on some mathematical model or which require certain equipment or tools.
Basic and most widely used analytical methods / techniques include:
- BCG matrix
- Brainstorming
- Benchmarking
- Gap Analysis
- Mind Maps
- Pareto principle, Pareto principle 80-20 rule
- Six Questions
- SWOT Analysis
Organizations are complex systems and therefore their needs are satisfied using different system analysis methods and enterprise architecture description methods:
- Enterprise Architecture Analysis
- Job Analysis
- Job description
- Job specification
- Organizational Architecture
- Reengineering
- Social Network Analysis
- Sociogram
- Sociometry
There are analytical techniques and methods of analysis and evaluation of an organization condition or its part:
- EFQM
- CAF
- Process Audit
- Finance Audit
- Personnel Audit
- CMM – Capability Maturity Model
Analytical techniques for searching the causes of negative phenomena in organizations and systems:
- ETA (Event Tree Analysis)
- FTA (Fault Tree Analysis)
- FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
- HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Analysis)
- Ishikawa diagram – Cause and Effect Analysis
- PHA (Preliminary Hazard Analysis)
For solving various problems in the organization, there are different methods of decision making methods used such as:
- Marketing Mix 4P
- Action Research
- Box-Jenkins Methodology
- CCM (Critical Chain Method)
- Contingency Approach
- Control chart
- CPM (Critical Path Method)
- Davidson’s break
- DBR (Drum Buffer Rope)
- Development diagram
- DOE (Design of Experiments)
- Eisenhower principle
- Equifinality principle
- Five Forces Analysis
- G8D (Global 8 Disciplines)
- General approach to problem solving
- Histogram
- Checkland‘s methodology
- Ishikawa diagram – Cause and Effect Analysis
- Mind maps
- MSA (Measurement System Analysis)
- NIMSAD Model
- Overcoming groupthink
- Paradox of Mintzberg
- Parallel teams
- Pareto Principle
- PESTLE analysis
- PPAP (Production Part Approval Process)
- QFD (Quality Function Deployment) – deployment of customer requirements, House of quality
- Regression Analysis
- Run chart
- Scatter diagram
- Sloan Filter
- SPC (Statistical process Control)
- Swapping
- TOC (Theory of Constraints)
- Value Stream Mapping
- VRIO analysis
- WIBI (Would I Buy It?)
There are also a variety of simulation and optimization methods, whose object is a calculation of possible developmental variants while creating operational and strategic plans:
- Forecasting
- Impact analysis
- Monte Carlo Method
- Network Analysis Methods
- Space Optimization
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