Tag Archives: ” “Right vs. Right.”

Working with Nested Problems

June 18 In the wide world of problems, there are solved and unsolved problems.  Solved problems are dead problems, and few people except historians have much interest in them.  When people find themselves up against a problem that has been solved before, what is helpful is to look for previous solutions: Previous experience; recipes and… Read More »

Wicked or Tame?

 July 10, 2014 Problems are either wicked or tame concluded Horst Rittle and Melvin Webber in the early 1970’s, an insight that has turned out not only to be interesting, but central to all attempts to solve problems.  Whether a problem is one or the other determines everything that follows:  what should be done, by… Read More »