Archive for March 2014

Transformation as a Wicked Problem

Posted on March 18, 2014, 3:33 pm, by Bill Rouse, under Archetypes, Change, Innovation.

In 1973, Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber published “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning” in the journal Policy Science (volume 4, pp. 155-169).  In this article, they characterized “wicked problems” as follows: —  There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem —  Wicked problems have no stopping rule – there is always a […]

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Levels of Change

Posted on March 3, 2014, 12:38 pm, by Bill Rouse, under Archetypes, Change, Innovation.

Fundamental change is pervasive across every level of life.  In this post, I compare four levels and time scales of change including evolution (millions of years), history (thousands of years), industry (centuries), and technology (decades).  This comparison leads to a few overall observations about transformation and a few insights into how people think about fundamental […]

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