Getting to the heart of designing research using systems thinking

Joan O'Donnell
Systemsbeing
Published in
5 min readJan 1, 2023

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Authors: Bob Williams, Joan O’Donnell

Nobody would deny that research is a complex business. One of the most complex decisions is deciding the focus of your research among the vast range of possibilities that lie within its scope. This blog explores how understanding and addressing three different kinds of complexity can help with that tricky decision. Ontological complexity helps you address the reality you are dealing with; cognitive complexity helps you understand how different people make sense of that reality and

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