Tag: wicked problem

  • The Wicked Problems

    Situations containing complex systems – “wicked problem”, Horst Rittel in 1970s. – Easy problems have been solved, only difficult ones left as they cannot be defined let alone resolved. Ten significant characteristics (Webber and Rittel, 1973): No definitive formulation e.g. problem of poverty in Texas is very similar but subtly different from poverty in Nairobi…