Logic Model - The Logic Model and Other Management Frameworks

The Logic Model and Other Management Frameworks

There are numerous other popular management frameworks that have been developed in recent decades. This often causes confusion, because the various frameworks have different functions. It is important to select the right tool for the job. The following list of popular management tools is suggested to indicate where they are most appropriate (this list is by no means complete).

Organizational assessment tools

Fact-gathering tools for a comprehensive view of the as-is situation in an organization, but without prescribing how to change it:

  • Malcolm Baldrige Assessment (United States)
  • EFQM (Europe)
  • SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
  • Skills audits
  • Customer surveys

Strategic planning tools

For identifying and prioritizing major long-term desired results in an organization, and strategies to achieve those results:

  • Strategic Vision (Writing a clear "picture of the future" statement)
  • Strategy maps
  • Portfolio Management (Managing a portfolio of interdependent projects)
  • Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (An approach for project staff and stakeholders to jointly agree on a vision, develop a logic model and an evaluation plan)
  • Weaver's Triangle (simply asks organisations to identify inputs, outcomes and outputs).

Program planning and evaluation tools

For developing details of individual programs (what to do and what to measure) once overall strategies have been defined:

  • Program logic model (this entry)
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Managing for Results model
  • Earned Value Management
  • PART - Program Assessment Rating Tool (US federal government)

Performance measurement tools

For measuring, monitoring and reporting the quality, efficiency, speed, cost and other aspects of projects, programs and/or processes:

  • Balanced scorecard systems
  • KPI - key performance indicators
  • Critical success factors

Process improvement tools

For monitoring and improving the quality or efficiency of work processes:

  • PDCA - Plan-do-check-act (Deming)
  • TQM - Total Quality Management (Shewhart, Deming, Juran) - A set of TQM tools is available.
  • Six Sigma
  • BPR - Business Process Reengineering
  • Organizational Design

Process standardization tools

For maintaining and documenting processes or resources to keep them repeatable and stable:

  • ISO 9000
  • CMMI - Capability Maturity Model Integration
  • Business Process Management (BPM)
  • Configuration management
  • Enterprise Architecture

Read more about this topic:  Logic Model

Famous quotes containing the words logic, model and/or management:

    “You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.”
    —Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    “...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotent—the State, family life, secular art and science—was consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “The Management Area of Cherokee
    National Forest, interested in fish,
    Has mapped Tellico and Bald Rivers
    And North River, with the tributaries
    Brookshire Branch and Sugar Cove Creed:
    A fishy map for facile fishery....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)