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Techne and techniques for engaging in a socially complex world

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  • Lorraine Dodd

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This paper addresses the challenge for Operational Research (OR) in extending out from traditional forms of modelling towards a more relational form of modelling. The challenge comes from OR practice becoming more transformative in nature, which puts more emphasis on reflective practice, people and relationships. Staged Appreciation is proposed as an overall guiding framework and selected illustrative techniques are presented for engaging with social complexity; so-called “wicked” problems. Systems Thinking techniques, guided by Staged Appreciation add an insightful new dimension to knowledge sharing for understanding, and for reflecting upon the intricacies involved in socially complex situations. There are analytical advantages of standing apart from complexity. Staged Appreciation complements this analytical standpoint by asking analysts to take a more reflective view of their own working relationships, being more a part of the socially complex problem as well as standing apart from it. Staged Appreciation offers a reflective framework for working with Systems Thinking techniques and together they complement traditional practice. The proposal and suggestions aim to support analysts to adopt a more reflective and relational view of a complex problematic situation in order to see it “as a whole.” The paper draws lessons from holism, reflective practice and subjective analysis.

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  • Lorraine Dodd, 2019. "Techne and techniques for engaging in a socially complex world," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 70(9), pages 1399-1409, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjorxx:v:70:y:2019:i:9:p:1399-1409
    DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2018.1501461
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    1. Alexandre de A. Gomes Júnior & Vanessa B. Schramm, 2022. "Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade," Systemic Practice and Action Research, Springer, vol. 35(1), pages 55-88, February.
    2. Sydelko, Pamela & Espinosa, Angela & Midgley, Gerald, 2024. "Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 312(2), pages 746-764.

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