An exploration of the added value of Systems Analysis and System Dynamics for assessing the importance of innovative concepts

摘要

When a problem is first encountered, the information is normally quite unsorted and disorganized. Often we are presented with a mixture of issues, problems, symptoms, worries, complaints, proposed mechanisms and fragments of solutions (Haraldsson 2005). In order to make sense, it must be sorted, organized and structured. Facilitated system thinking offers a systematic methodology through which all this information can be organized to arrive to an explicit and clear definition of the problem at hand and its determining causes. Accordingly, this methodology proves particularly rewarding for the analysis of multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder and/or complex problems.