SYSTEMS ORIENTED DESIGN

Systems Oriented Design (SOD) is informed by modern systems thinking and theories such as soft systems method, systems architecting and critical systems thinking. However, SOD contains a series of proprietary concepts, methods, and techniques. Amongst them are gigamapping, ZIP analyses and impact and threshold analyses. SOD is regarded as a genuinely creative tool in design... The main mission of SOD is to help designers to become better at dealing with very complex problems. Complex problems are described as problem fields, networks of problems, wicked problems and problematiques.