Management and industry
- Organizational chart Daniel Craig McCallum (concept); George Holt Henshaw (drafted) · 1854-1855
- Harmonogram Karol Adamiecki · 1896
- Kardex visible record system James H. Rand Sr. (visible index); James Rand Jr. (Kardex brand) · 1898-1915
- Defect concentration diagram Quality engineering practice; no single originator · 1900s
- Linear responsibility chart No single originator documented · 20th century
- Milestone chart No single originator documented · 20th century
- Peg-and-string scheduling board No originator documented; factory production control · 20th century
- Spaghetti diagram No single inventor documented; industrial engineering practice · 20th century
- Yamazumi chart Toyota Production System; no individual originator documented · 20th century
- Gantt chart family (progress, load, man and machine records) Henry L. Gantt · 1910s
- Two-handed process chart Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth · 1911-1921
- Cyclegraph / chronocyclegraph Frank & Lillian Gilbreth · 1913-1917
- Streetcar load model Frankfurt transit exhibit, Leipzig building trade exhibition · 1913
- Wire motion-path model Frank Bunker Gilbreth · 1915
- Man and machine record chart Henry Laurence Gantt · 1917-1922
- Material control board Gantt-school production control practice · 1918-1939
- Du Pont formula chart Du Pont (F.D. Brown) · 1919
- Flow process chart Frank & Lillian Gilbreth · 1921
- Flowchart Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (process chart, 1921); Herman Goldstine and John von Neumann (computing, 1947) · 1921-1947
- SIMO chart Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth · 1921
- Axonometric chart John B. Peddle; described by Karsten · 1923
- Clock chart Karsten (naming); American business practice · 1923
- Motion-picture chart American statistical practice; described by Karsten · 1923
- Orthographic chart Karsten (naming); statistical practice · 1923
- Sky-line chart Karsten (naming); American statistical practice · 1923
- Staircased band chart Karsten (naming); American statistical practice · 1923
- Zone curve Karsten (naming); American statistical practice · 1923
- Shewhart control chart Walter Andrew Shewhart · 1924-1931
- Z chart (zee chart) No single inventor documented; described by Karsten · 1925
- Karsten tridimensional chart Karl G. Karsten · 1926
- Multiple-axis graph Described by Brinton after Brown, Bingham and Trueblood · 1931-1939
- Corporate relief globe Ford Motor Company, Chicago World's Fair · 1934
- Learning (experience) curve Theodore Paul Wright · 1936
- String diagram (method study) No single originator documented; motion-study tradition · 1937
- 100% square (area bar chart) Brinton (naming); American statistical practice · 1939
- IBM Cosmograph International Business Machines · by 1939
- Nested-zone dot circles Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford · by 1939
- Ship-model trade map British pavilion, New York World's Fair · 1939
- Line of balance Goodyear; US Navy · 1941/1962
- Pareto chart Joseph Moses Juran · 1941-1951
- Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram Kaoru Ishikawa · 1943
- Decision tree (decision analysis) Operations research practice; no single originator · mid-20th century
- Multi-vari chart Leonard Seder · 1950
- Multiple activity chart No single inventor documented; work-study practice · mid-20th century
- Reliability block diagram US military and aerospace reliability practice; no single originator · 1950s-1960s
- Bilateral deviation bar chart No single inventor documented; classified by Calvin F. Schmid · 1954
- CUSUM chart with V-mask E.S. Page; G.A. Barnard · 1954/1959
- Gozinto chart Andrew Vazsonyi · 1954
- Pre-control chart Frank Edward Satterthwaite, Rath and Strong · 1954
- Range (floating bar) chart No single inventor documented; classified by Calvin F. Schmid · 1954
- Sliding bar chart No single inventor documented; classified by Calvin F. Schmid · 1954
- Strata (silhouette) chart No single inventor documented; classified by Calvin F. Schmid · 1954
- Critical path method network Morgan R. Walker and James E. Kelley Jr. · 1957-1959
- PERT network US Navy Special Projects Office with Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed · 1958
- EWMA control chart S. W. Roberts · 1959
- Activity relationship chart Richard Muther · 1961
- From-to chart (cross chart) Richard Muther (standard citation; originator undocumented) · 1961
- Precedence diagram John W. Fondahl · 1961
- Fault tree Harold A. Watson, Bell Telephone Laboratories · 1962
- GE-McKinsey nine-box matrix McKinsey and Company for General Electric; no individual documented · 1970s
- Growth-share matrix Bruce Doolin Henderson; first sketch credited to Alan Zakon · 1970
- House of quality Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard; Yoji Akao (QFD) · 1972
- Event tree Reactor Safety Study team under Norman Rasmussen · 1975
- Seven new QC tools JUSE committee including Shigeru Mizuno · 1979
- Swimlane diagram Geary A. Rummler and Alan P. Brache · 1990
- Value stream map Mike Rother and John Shook · 1998