Problem Solving & Decision Making
Problem Solving & Decision Making flashcards
105 cards covering the key problem solving & decision making vocabulary. Reveal the definition, mark the ones you know, and shuffle for another pass. Recalling a term before you flip — rather than re-reading it — is what moves it into long-term memory.
1 / 105 · 0 known
Terms in this set
Every card at a glance. Follow a term to its full definition in the Problem Solving & Decision Making glossary.
- A/B testing
- Analogical transfer
- Anchoring
- Balancing loop
- Bias blind spot
- Blameless post-mortem
- Blameless review
- Bottleneck
- Brainwriting
- Build-measure-learn
- Cause-and-effect diagram
- Checklist
- Chunking
- Codebreaking
- Collective intelligence
- Constraint
- Constraint relaxation
- Contributing cause
- Convergent thinking
- Countermeasure
- Decision journal
- Decision matrix
- Decision rights
- Decision tree
- Decomposition
- Delay
- Design thinking
- Devil’s advocate
- Disagree and commit
- Divergent thinking
- Downside
- Epidemiological reasoning
- Evaluation criteria
- Expected value
- Feedback loop
- Five Whys
- Functional fixedness
- Groupthink
- Heuristic
- Hindsight bias
- Hypothesis-driven analysis
- Ill-structured problem
- Improvisation under constraints
- Incubation
- Insight
- Intelligent failure
- Issue tree
- Iteration
- Leverage point
- Means-end analysis
- MECE
- Mental set
- Minimum viable product
- Nash equilibrium
- Near miss
- Nominal group
- Objective
- One-way door
- One-way door decision
- Opportunity cost
- Outside view
- PDCA
- Pilot
- Planning fallacy
- Pólya's method
- Post-mortem
- Pre-mortem
- Premortem
- Prepared mind
- Prisoner’s dilemma
- Problem
- Problem framing
- Problem space
- Problem statement
- Production blocking
- Prototype
- Psychological safety
- Recognition-primed decision
- Reframing
- Reinforcing loop
- Resulting
- Reversibility
- Root cause
- Ruin
- Satisficing
- Second-order consequence
- Second-order thinking
- Serendipity
- Shared information bias
- Small batch
- Solution in disguise
- Standard work
- Sunk cost
- Symptom
- System
- Tame problem
- Trade-off
- Two-way door
- Two-way door decision
- Unintended consequence
- Unintended consequences
- Well-defined problem
- Wicked problem
- Wisdom of crowds
- Working backwards