Thinking Frameworks – Match the Scenario to the Framework
Drag‑or‑click each real‑world scenario on the left to the thinking framework best suited to handle it on the right, then press Check answers to see how you did.
A startup wants to cut battery cost for its drone by ignoring industry norms and re‑deriving every component price from chemistry upward.
A manufacturing defect keeps resurfacing; the quality team keeps asking successive 'why?' questions until a loose sensor bracket is uncovered.
An e‑commerce site discovers 70 % of checkout failures come from two specific API calls and fixes those first for maximum lift.
City planners map traffic, housing, and public transit feedback loops to avoid creating new bottlenecks when adding a light‑rail line.
A data scientist proposes a cause for churn, predicts a metric shift if true, runs an experiment, and revises the idea based on the result.
A cybersecurity team faces a live breach and cycles rapidly through observe, orient, decide, act to outpace the attacker’s moves.
A warehouse tests a new picking process on one aisle, measures errors, adjusts, then rolls the improved version to all aisles.
A retailer entering a new market lists its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and analyzes supplier power and rivalry before setting price.
Developers interview users, define pain points, brainstorm, prototype, and test until the mobile app’s onboarding feels effortless.
A product team brainstorms how to improve a coffee mug by substituting materials, combining features, and reversing its form factor.
Your task list is overflowing; you sort items into urgent‑important quadrants to decide what to do now, schedule, delegate, or drop.
A manager captures every stray idea in an inbox app, clarifies next actions, reviews weekly, and trusts the system to stay stress‑free.
A medical student schedules flashcard reviews at 1‑day, 3‑day, then 1‑week intervals to lock drug facts into long‑term memory.
First Principles
5 Whys
Pareto (80/20)
Systems Thinking
Hypothetico‑Deductive Method
OODA Loop
PDCA
SWOT & Five Forces
Design Thinking
SCAMPER
Eisenhower Matrix
Getting Things Done (GTD)
Spaced Repetition