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Wicked Problems – Social Messes

Decision Support Modelling with Morphological Analysis

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Tom Ritchey

    1. Ritchey Consulting AB, Vällingby, Sweden

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  • First dedicated book to treat Computer-aided General Morphological Analysis (GMA)
  • Written by its developer and foremost practitioner
  • Detailed discussion on the difference between risk and (genuine) uncertainty
  • Detailed description of how to plan and facilitate morphological analysis workshops
  • Eleven unique case studies of the application of GMA
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Risk, Governance and Society (RISKGOSO, volume 17)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 1-6

  3. General Morphological Analysis (GMA)

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 7-18

  4. Wicked Problems and Genuine Uncertainty

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 19-29

  5. Modelling Complex Policy Issues with Morphological Analysis

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 31-37

  6. Strengths, Limitations and Advanced Topics

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 39-45

  7. On the Formal Properties of Morphological Models

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 47-59

  8. Facilitating GMA Workshops

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 61-68

  9. GMA Case Studies

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 69-85

  10. About Fritz Zwicky

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 87-89

  11. Glossary of Terms

    • Tom Ritchey
    Pages 91-101

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 103-106
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About this book

This is the first dedicated book to be published on computer-aided General Morphological Analysis (GMA) as a non-quantified modelling method. It presents the history and theory of GMA and describes how it is used to develop interactive, non-quantified inference models. Eleven case studies are presented out of more than 100 projects carried out since 1995, illustrating how GMA has been employed for structuring complex policy and planning issues, developing scenario and strategy laboratories, and analysing organisational and stakeholder structures. Also discussed are the concepts of “wicked problems” and “social messes”, their characteristics and treatment, and problems concerning the facilitation of morphological analysis workshops.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ritchey Consulting AB, Vällingby, Sweden

    Tom Ritchey

About the author

Tom Ritchey is a former Research Director for the Institution for Technology Foresight and Assessment at the Swedish National Defence Research Agency (FOI) in Stockholm. He is the founder of the Swedish Morphological Society, is director of Ritchey Consulting Inc. and a founding partner in the U.K. based Strategy Foresight Partnership LLP.

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