Systems thinking

Numerous problems affect humanity. UNESCO's sustainable development goals address seventeen of these global problems including poverty and climate change.

                                                                                                                   

Only the tip of a problem is visible to the outside world. There might be several underlying issues. Systematic thinking will guide us to come up with a better solution by systematically analyzing the problem.

Systems thinking involves understanding the complexity of the world as a whole. To solve a problem it is recommended to identify  what happened and patterns of its occurrences. Problems  can be categorized into simple problems, complicated problems and complex problems.                                                                                                                                          

These categories differ from each other. So, it is recommended to identify the type of problem to solve it efficiently. Some characteristics and differences of these categories  are explained below.

To solve simple and complex problems no particular expertise is needed while it is necessary to have high levels of expertise to solve complicated problems. A recipe is essential to solve a simple problem. It is easy to define complicated problems compared to complex problems. Complicated problems can be simplified into parts while complex problems are hard to break down into parts. It is possible to solve complicated and simple problems but complex problems can only be addressed.