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ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITYRECALIBRATING DECIPHERINGMaking Sense of Root Cause Analysis In this conversation related...
07/19/2026

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY
RECALIBRATING DECIPHERING
Making Sense of Root Cause Analysis

In this conversation related to Cross-Community Think-Blending as it connects to Design for Complexity, there are still a couple of bumpy methodology related issues, so far left out, that we might now reflect upon as we begin to land this plane, still under construction. Soft Systems Thinking remains rooted in, tied to, so-called Root Cause Analysis. We might help our readers understand the difference between Deciphering in fuzzy complex situations and the activity of Root Cause Analysis.

https://www.nextd.org/post/recalibrating-deciphering

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITYRECALIBRATING THEORY OF CONSTRAINTSMaking Sense of Pre & Post Checkland Earthquake LogicB...
07/19/2026

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY
RECALIBRATING THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS
Making Sense of Pre & Post Checkland Earthquake Logic

Before we circle back to the EarthQuake conversation for a part 2 of that story there is one other sub-topic deserving a little attention from us, related to the fits and misfits of Think-Blending on route to Design for Complexity.

It is one that pops up in various SSM posts positioned as relating to “improving system performance” and that is Eliyahu Goldratt’s 1984 "Theory of Constraints”. Focusing on "leverage points" and a "five step framework to identify and leverage these constraints", seems to reflect an engineering, mechanical view of the organization as machine. "Theory of Constraints” is not seen as central to any of the other changemaking anchor approaches.

https://www.nextd.org/post/recalibrating-constraints

NEURATH MEETS GUILFORDHappy to share this from Humantific Journal, since it relates directly to Design for Complexity in...
07/19/2026

NEURATH MEETS GUILFORD

Happy to share this from Humantific Journal, since it relates directly to Design for Complexity in action. In celebration of appreciating Otto Neurath at 90 I was happy to give a short talk; "Neurath Meets Guilford" at the May 27th, Symbol 26 Conference organized in Vienna. We have not presented at a IIID conference for several years so was good to be reconnected and make a contribution in the direction of two people who's work we greatly respect and admire.

The talk will hopefully soon be posted on the conference site but since there is so much interest in these two historical figures we will post a few screens here.

https://www.nextd.org/post/neurath-meets-guilford

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITYRETHINKING FRAMING 2Making Sense of Schon's "Reflective Practitioner"
06/27/2026

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY
RETHINKING FRAMING 2
Making Sense of Schon's "Reflective Practitioner"

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