The document describes seven management and planning tools that were developed from operations research after World War II and Japanese quality control methods. The seven tools are affinity diagram, interrelationship diagraph, tree diagram, prioritization matrix, matrix diagram, process decision program chart, and activity network diagram. Each tool is used for organizing information, analyzing relationships, breaking concepts into finer levels of detail, prioritizing items, showing relationships between items, planning tasks and identifying risks, and planning task sequences.