Unpacking Complexity

The previous section contains frameworks which help to define the differences between simple, complicated, complex and chaotic problems, systems and situations. In each framework there are ideas on how to address problems in each of the categories with some suggestions being more explicit than others.

The frameworks collected in this section continue to expand our ways of thinking about addressing complex problems by providing tools to help unpack a complex problem. Complicated problems can be unpacked by looking for causal relationships, but complex problems are better served by understanding relationships between the visible and invisible forces driving systems to behave as they do.