OODA Loop
This diagram is also known as the decision cycle, the Boyd cycle, or the OODA cycle. It has become an important concept in business and military strategy. According to John Boyd, decision making occurs in a cycle of observe-orient-decide-act. An entity (either an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly can get inside the opponent's decision cycle and gain a military or business advantage.John Boyd originally developed this diagram to explain to new fighter pilots how to direct their own energies to defeat their enemies and find survival for themselves. Boyd emphasised that "the loop" is actually a set of interacting loops that are to be kept in continuous operation during combat. He also indicated that the phase of the battle has an important bearing on the ideal allocation of one's individual energies. Consider a fighter pilot being scrambled to shoot down an invading aircraft
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