Getting to the heart of designing research using systems thinking
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5 min readJan 1, 2023
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…