approaches, fashions, forms, hows, manners, methodologies, recipes, strategies, styles, systems, tacks, tactics, techniques, ways

modes, modi operandiblueprints, designs, game plans, games, ground plans, intrigues, layouts, lines, models, plans, plots, programs, routes, schemesexpedients, moves, shifts, stepspractices(also practises), processes, routinespolicies