Towards a new framework for evaluating systemic problem structuring methods |
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Authors: | Gerald Midgley Robert Y. Cavana John Brocklesby Jeff L. Foote David R.R. Wood Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll |
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Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Systems Studies, Business School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom;2. Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand;3. School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Sweden;4. School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand;5. School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia;6. Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd., PO Box 29-181, Christchurch, New Zealand;g School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Private Bag 4800, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Operational researchers and social scientists often make significant claims for the value of systemic problem structuring and other participative methods. However, when they present evidence to support these claims, it is usually based on single case studies of intervention. There have been very few attempts at evaluating across methods and across interventions undertaken by different people. This is because, in any local intervention, contextual factors, the skills of the researcher and the purposes being pursued by stakeholders affect the perceived success or failure of a method. The use of standard criteria for comparing methods is therefore made problematic by the need to consider what is unique in each intervention. So, is it possible to develop a single evaluation approach that can support both locally meaningful evaluations and longer-term comparisons between methods? This paper outlines a methodological framework for the evaluation of systemic problem structuring methods that seeks to do just this. |
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Keywords: | Problem structuring methods Soft operational research Evaluation of methods Participative methods Systems methodology Systems thinking |
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