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A systems approach to address wicked problems
My last post was about the use of three basic systems concepts (inter-relationships, boundaries, perspectives) in evaluation design. The post before that was about C. West Churchman’s last great book ‘The systems approach and its enemies’ (1979). In this post … Continue reading
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It’s a wicked problem, stupid! (revisited)
A bit over 5 years ago I first learned about wicked problems. So I looked at the oft-cited seminal article by Rittel & Webber of 1973 and tried to make sense of it (see old post). There was a lot of … Continue reading
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Resolving wicked problems: rules of the game
Broad guidelines for problem-resolution processes derived from first principles The reason for this post… is to see to what extent one can understand common rules for resolving wicked business problems as directly related to the nature of the problems they … Continue reading
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Managing wicked problems: a primer
Problem structuring and (non-)linear management methods to address wicked problems in business and development What is linear management? Linear management is often contrasted with the non-linear, reiterative forms of management used to address wicked problems. Linear management can be applied … Continue reading
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Wicked problems according to Schumacher
Or what the author of Small is Beautiful says on complexity Very short biography Schumacher is an influential 20th century economist, best known for writing Small is Beautiful (1973), which deals with socio-economic sustainability and development economics. After his escape … Continue reading
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It’s a wicked problem, stupid!
What’s the link between wicked problems and systems thinking? There is an update (25 May 2018) of this post now at https://csl4d.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/its-a-wicked-problem-stupid-revisited/ The first person to call wicked problems so was professor Horst Rittel of the University of California Architecture Department, presumably … Continue reading
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Systems thinking in three steps
Systems thinking is generally considered difficult, both to learn and to explain what it is about. Here is the latest of my efforts in this blog to make it simple. At the end is a concept map. It is self-explanatory, … Continue reading
Systems thinking for evaluation design
Video transcript, summary, and concept map In March, 2015, Bob Williams, the main author of Wicked Solutions and several other books on systems thinking, gave a 2-day workshop “Wicked Solutions: A Systems Approach to Complex Problems” on the use of … Continue reading
The “enemies” of the systems approach
Here is a link to the abstracts of the individual chapters of C. West Churchman’s ‘The systems approach and its enemies’, which was Churchman’s last book of his great trilogy. Churchman’s work is the focal point of CSL4D. I used … Continue reading
Designing stuff, revisited
In August 2014, I made a post (here) about the presentation on design thinking by Harold G. Nelson at the Human-Computer Interaction Seminar on People, Computers, and Design at Stanford on April 16, 2010. Since then I have grown convinced that design … Continue reading
