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Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}{{d|messes, problem and puzzles||n|}}A coinage of Russell Ackoff and distinguishing between situations having neither a well-formed question nor an answer (“'''messes'''”), those which have a clear question but not an answer (“'''problems'''”) and those which have a clear question ''and'' a determinate answer (“'''puzzles'''”). JC notes parenthetically that a bucket is missing here: those situations in which there exists an ''answer'' but not...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit |
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{{a|systems|}}{{d| | {{a|systems|}}{{d|Messes, problems and puzzles||n|}}A coinage of Russell Ackoff and distinguishing between situations having neither a well-formed question nor an answer (“'''messes'''”), those which have a clear question but not an answer (“'''problems'''”) and those which have a clear question ''and'' a determinate answer (“'''puzzles'''”). | ||
JC notes parenthetically that a bucket is missing here: those situations in which there exists an ''answer'' but not (yet) a ''question'' — call these ones “opportunities”, “unfulfilled use cases” or “solutions looking for problems” etc.<ref>[[Distributed ledger technology]], [[generative AI]], wheels for suitcases for example.</ref> | JC notes parenthetically that a bucket is missing here: those situations in which there exists an ''answer'' but not (yet) a ''question'' — call these ones “opportunities”, “unfulfilled use cases” or “solutions looking for problems” etc.<ref>[[Distributed ledger technology]], [[generative AI]], wheels for suitcases for example.</ref> | ||