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Ignatius D, Manager, India
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🔥 NEW Major challenges / problems, which tend to be of strategic nature, are usually considered as a "wicked" type of problems. According to Hoerst Rittel and Melvin Webber, these wicked problems lack clarity in their aims and they may not have one solution.
Wicked problems are different because they can't be solved by traditional methods. Some examples of wicked problems are poverty, terrorism, unemployment, and many business strategies. There are various dimensions to wicked issues and they can not even be defined easily. Some characteristics of wicked problems are given below. Using these characteristics will make identifying such wicked problems a little easier and will help strategists and managers approach wicked strategy problems.
Characteristics of a wicked problem
- Wicked problems involve multiple stakeholders who can also play an important role in implementing the "solution" that is chosen.
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John Henry, Project Manager, United States
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Wicked Problem? or Poor Root Cause Analysis?
Many problems have more than a single symptom, the (...)
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Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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Wicked Problems
I agree with John that we should use the proper to (...)
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Alex, Business Consultant, Germany
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Wicked Problem Solutions
Strategy is simply a theory intended to predict a (...)
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Jeff Washburn, Strategy Consultant, United States
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'Wicked' Problems Have no Direct Solutions
Some things are only solved indirectly. Or perhaps (...)
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Gary Wong, Consultant, Canada
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We Must Look at a Wicked Problem Through the Lens of Complexity
Let me describe a wicked problem using complexity (...)
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zephir, engineer, France
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Problem or Problematic Situation
My understanding of a wicked problem rest in the a (...)
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Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
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The Wickedness of Complexity
I agree with most of the points made although, @, (...)
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Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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Characteristics of Wicked Problems
The word "wicked" can have 3 major meanings:
1. e (...)
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Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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Example of a Wicked Problem
The above may perhaps seem difficult and rather ab (...)
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John Henry, Project Manager, United States
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A Hydra is a Good Example of Root Cause
The head of the hydra, is a symptom, not the cause (...)
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Gary Wong, Consultant, Canada
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Living with Uncertainty
@John Henry: I like your comment: "However, as the (...)
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Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
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Concerning the Heart of the Hydra
@: I do like this expansion of my point re "Wicked (...)
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