Chart adapted from Chester W. Richards, "A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd did a National Defense review", Center for Defense Information, February 2003, 22.
OODA & Adaptive Enterprise
I was surprised not to see anything about Stephan Haeckel's Adaptive Enterprise concept, advanced in late 1990s. He was head of IBM's Advanced Business Institute and now runs a consulting company focu...
OODA Loop & John Boyd
Orientation also involves probing for new information and looking for parallels in other areas of knowledge. It is extremely effective in emotionally charged situations like divorce. Boyds strategy t...
Crucial Dialogue Model Refines OODA Loop
The OODA loop is not new It is as old as mankind (otherwise we wouldnt be here).
The foundation of the OODA loop and more of these loops (PDCA as already mentioned) is the Creative Interchange ...
OODA Loop versus PDSA Cycle
Boyd's OODA Loop and Deming's PDSA Cycle appear to be similar at first sight.
And indeed there are several similarities between OODA and PDSA. They include:
Think before you act.
Cyclic natur...
Books on Boyd and his OODA Concept
'The Mind of War' and 'The John Boyd Roundtable' are some other books talking about Boyd theories and the OODA Loop concept.
The best biography about Boyd is by Robert Coram named 'Boyd: The Fighter ...
Scope of OODA Loops
John Boyd's work focused on getting inside of your opponents decision cycle time. There was no specification as to whether this was only the fractions of a second required for a fighter pilot or the m...
The Lesson of John Boyd for Decision Makers
You can use the "OODA Loop" of fighter pilot John Boyd for various kinds of decision-making in different situations and circumstances, including non-military, corporate, departmental, and team environ...
Limitations OODA Loop, Disadvantages OODA Loop, OODA Decision-making Rousseau and Breton identify some limitations of the OODA Loop as developed by Boyd. These limitations and weaknesses ar...
OODA-loop, Complex Decision Support, Defense, Best Practices Rousseau and Breton developed an extended version of the OODA-loop in order to remove some of its weaknesses. M-OODA (sh...
OODA Strategy, OODA Strategic Aim, OODA Purpose What is the strategy and the strategic aim behind his OODA loop?
Strategy:
Penetrate adversarys moral-mental-physical...
OODA Advantages, OODA Competitive Advantages According to Boyd, the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more...
Adversary View of OODA, OODA Adversaries John Boyd's thinking was aimed at running the loop Observe-Orient-Decide-Act more inconspicuously, more quickly, and wit...
OODA Loop, OODA Cycle, OODA Feedback Keep in mind that you have to cycle through the OODA Loop fast.
A key idea behind it is that you should not stay in any...
Strategy, Conflict, OODA Loop A monumental look by Boyd at what makes any organization competitive.
Encompassing 2,500 years of the history of confl...
Complex (Military) Dynamic Decision Support The OODA loop has been proposed to represent the decision cycle of pilots in air force environments. One of the advantag...
Decision-making, Information Video about at how Boyd's OODA loop construct can be applied to marketing management. Video looks a bit outdated, but th...
OODA, Decision-making, Warfare In-depth paper by Berndt Brehmer on the Dynamic OODA loop, or DOODA loop for short, a generic model of Command and Contr...
Orientation Phase, OODA-Loop This presentation expands on the second point in the OODA-loop, the Orientation phase. The presentation starts with a ge...