(no, not "evil" or "bitchin'")

original usage: [Wicked Problem]-s (vs [Tame Problem]-s)

• http://www.cognexus.org/id42.htm A wicked problem is one for which each attempt to create a solution changes the understanding of the problem. Wicked problems cannot be solved in a traditional [LinEar] fashion, because the problem definition evolves as new possible solutions are considered and/or implemented.

  • "WickEd Problems and Social Complex Ity" - Collective Intelligence is a natural property of socially shared cognition, a natural enabler of Collaborat Ion. But there are also natural forces that challenge collective intelligence, forces that doom projects and make collaboration difficult or impossible. These are forces of fragmentation... The antidote to fragmentation is shared understanding (Shared Vision) and shared Commit Ment. The 2 key sources of fragmentation are WickEd problems and social Complex Ity (multi-diverse Stake Holders)

• "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning" (cite ) (Policy Sciences, Vol. 4, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company Inc., Amsterdam, 1973), Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber

• [Wicked Problem]-s, [Righteous Solution]-s by [Peter De Grace] ISBN:013590126X

• [Mary Poppendick] http://www.poppendieck.com/wicked.htm lists characteristics

• [Laurence J Peter] - Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

• Jeff Conklin http://www.3m.com/meetingnetwork/readingroom/gdss_wicked.html

inspired... Wicked Project-s

• [Mary Poppendick] says Wicked projects arise when a project is organized to tackle a wicked problems as if it were a tame problem.

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