Designing visualization software for super-wicked problems

Winters, Kirsten M.; Cushing, Judith Bayard; Lach, Denise

doi:10.3233/ip-160400

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“…The core model structure was discussed and agreed upon during these meetings. Overall, the best practices recognized in the field were adhered to during this research (Martinez‐Moyano and Richardson, ; see also Winters et al ., ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Aging effects in public policy making

Mendes

Aleluia

2019

System Dynamics Review

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Administrations in public education can do little besides struggle to balance the number of needed and available teachers. Conventional student-teacher ratios perpetuate trends and are unfit for policy making. Besides lacking a suitable alternative, the Portuguese government was concerned that declining birth rates might make tenured teachers redundant over time. Their hiring policies became gradually more conservative and less transparent, and grievances escalated. An SD model provided rigorous estimates for the number of public grade and secondary teachers needed in each Portuguese school district, per teaching group (science, English, etc.). The model combined a structure of three goal-seeking aging chain arrays. Its results were used to quantify and allocate tenured teacher vacancies in 2015. The model showed that redundancy concerns were unfounded and hiring for all vacancies was justifiable in the future. These results might have been difficult to anticipate by human decision makers because of the delays involved.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Aging effects in public policy making

Mendes

Aleluia

2019

System Dynamics Review

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“…The relatively recent addition of super wicked problems (Winters et al , 2016) to the distinction between tame and wicked problems (Head, 2008) arises out of the growing concern for a set of issues which are: controversial, imminently threatening, possess a global reach, impact the haves and have nots and require public leadership (Edmonstone et al , 2019). The addition of super wicked problems to the tame/wicked distinction generates the wicked problem continuum.…”

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Public leadership and the wicked problem continuum

Wexler

Oberlander

2020

IJPL

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PurposeThis paper examines the relevance of the wicked problem continuum, particularly the emergence of super wicked challenges for public leadership researchers. Contemporary theorizing on public leadership adequately deals with tame challenges, struggles with wicked problems and remains in the dark with regards to the implications of super wicked problemsDesign/methodology/approachThe wicked problem continuum provides a typology or set of dilemmas running from tame to wicked through to super wicked problems. These different problem types are treated as if they were on a three-zone continuum in which the difficulty of solving or substantially reducing the problem varies from relatively low to very high.FindingsWe delineate the three-problem contexts in the wicked problem continuum and discuss the ideal type of organization thriving in each zone. We then posit two opposing wicked problem interpretations-taming and wilding- for those interested in public leadership. Taming calls for prudent, results-oriented leaders employing tried and tested practices. Wilding demands leaders who test the status quo by seeking alternatives.Social implicationsOn the global leadership agenda, wilding problems—those calling attention to the super wicked zone—are escalating. Despite this, public leaders' training lacks a framework for making sense of these urgent and publicly contentious super wicked problems.Originality/valuePublic policy researchers are beginning to direct attention to super wicked problems such as climate change, and pandemics. This work introduces the wicked problem continuum and demonstrates its pertinence for researchers of public leadership.

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“…Communication among technical experts and stakeholders is especially important for a class of issues termed "wicked problems" (Rittel and Webber, 1973), where both the benefits and costs have considerable societal impacts. Poor communication among technical experts and stakeholders may be attributed, in part, to the differences in performance criteria and rewards systems of the two groups in their respective employment sectors [see, for example, Winters et al (2016)]. For example, technical experts in academia are expected to publish new tools and methods, yet they are rarely rewarded based on the usability of a particular tool they create (Yarime et al, 2012).…”

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Embedding co-production and addressing uncertainty in watershed modeling decision-support tools: Successes and challenges

Barnhart

Golden

Kasprzyk

et al. 2018

Environmental Modelling & Software

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Decision-support tools (DSTs) are often produced from collaborations between technical experts and stakeholders to address environmental problems and inform decision making. Studies in the past two decades have provided key insights on the use of DSTs and the importance of bidirectional information flows among technical experts and stakeholders-a process that is variously referred to as co-production, participatory modeling, structured decision making, or simply stakeholder participation. Many of these studies have elicited foundational insights for the broad field of water resources management; however, questions remain on approaches for balancing co-production with uncertainty specifically for watershed modeling decision support tools. In this paper, we outline a simple conceptual model that focuses on the DST development process. Then, using watershed modeling case studies found in the literature, we discuss *

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Designing visualization software for super-wicked problems

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Aging effects in public policy making

Aging effects in public policy making

Public leadership and the wicked problem continuum

Embedding co-production and addressing uncertainty in watershed modeling decision-support tools: Successes and challenges

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