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Week 4: Problem solving and decision making

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Circle labelled ‘Messes or Wicked Problems’ with eight pieces of text branching off. Going clockwise from the top they read:

Text 1: ‘Longer uncertain timescale’

Text 2: ‘Priorities called into question’

Text 3: ‘Uncertain but greater implications, worrying’

Text 4: ‘Can’t be disentangled from its context’

Text 5: ‘More people involved’

Text 6: ‘Don’t know what needs to be known’

Text 7: ‘Not sure what the problem is’

Text 8: ‘No ‘solutions’’.

 2.3 Tame problems, messes and wicked problems