Complex or complicated?
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Complex or complicated?
We all tend to oversimplify complex things into two competing ideologies: generalist or specialist, objective or subjective, individual or team. This can be useful, but it can also make us think we should pick a side. It also becomes an issue when we try and solve them—calling these things ‘problems’ implies there is a correct answer somewhere. But... See more
UX Mastery • The Joys of Polarity Mapping - UX Mastery
To keep you focused on the big picture, Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer describe problems as embodying three types of complexity:
- Dynamic Complexity. Where cause and effect are distant in time and space. When it is high, you need to take a systems approach that deals with all the interdependencies. When it is low, you can do a piece by piece approach
Jeff Mohr • What is complexity?
A problem symptom alternately improves (the problem variable goes down) and deteriorates (the problem goes up, worse than before) .......................…
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Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
While technical problems may be very complex and critically important (like replacing a faulty heart valve during cardiac surgery), they have known solutions that can be implemented by current know-how. They can be resolved through the application of authoritative expertise and through the organization’s current structures, procedures, and ways of
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