Monthly Archives: December 2015

Choice Points: Tame and Wicked

    December 15, 2015 Do you remember the “Good News – Bad News” jokes? Here’s a favorite of mine:  The airline pilot comes on the intercom and says to the passengers, “There’s good news and bad news.  The good news is that we are ahead of schedule.  The bad new is that we don’t… Read More »

Wicked Confusions

November 30, 2015   I first came upon the concepts of Wicked and Tame problems in the late 1980’s.  I was reading Challenging  Strategic Planning Assumptions by Richard Mason and Ian Mitroff,  published in 1981. Their primary contribution to the literature of strategic planning was the introduction of tame and wicked problems into the language of… Read More »