Framing the Intractable: Comprehensive Success Factor Analysis for Grand Challenges.

ABSTRACT: Complex socio-technical challenges, often referred to as grand challenges or wicked problems, lack a robust method for their holistic framing. Current approaches to framing fall into two primary categories. On one hand, models grounded in reductionist perspectives tend to oversimplify the problems and thus fall short of capturing the true complexity that must be understood to make tangible progress. On the other, notable attempts to achieve holism are more effective at incorporating contextual nuance, but still lack systematicity to identify and drive effective inclusion of critical issues, and also tend to suffer from the inherent bias of select expert input. In this article, we report on an extension of holistic problem framing techniques called comprehensive success factor analysis (CSF

SUBMITTER: Sinfield JV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7445148 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature