TL;DR
- This is a Japanese-designed approach for complex and uncertain problems. It combines “hard” analysis with “soft” human judgment to get the best of both worlds, it’s more of a mindset than an actual analytical model. Taking an approach like this will help you use the tools at your disposal to be decision supporters, not decision-makers.
Notes
- Developed in Japan in the 1980s
- Two sets of principles: I’s and H’s
- In other words, in order to make the best choices and really do what is best for the future, we need to incorporate more opinions, knowledge, and input instead of relying solely on one tool, person, or model to give us an answer.
- This is traditionally in relation to systems design/ systems thinking, where researchers will analyze complex environments to try and understand it better, but these tend to stray from reality due to the complex nature of the world we live in, put simply, we can’t predict the future, so we shouldn’t expect some mathematical model to do it either.