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by Terretta 1219 days ago
PDCA is entirely unrelated to OODA. There are a bunch of graphics that confuse people into thinking they're related, by showing O-O-D-A-> in a circle. That's dead wrong.

OODA is all about feedback mechanisms:

https://co2partners.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ooda.png

So any correspondence is a misunderstanding:

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f16206_0206cf0c618a47b1ab...

You will not achieve the same results with an iteration.

You will only achieve similar results with "double loop" learning and informed intuition driven actions that skip the "decide" step.