Conclusion

Abstract

Well, we have finished a long journey through a wide variety of topics we felt would be useful to you in understanding the landscape associated with complex decision making. Our take on decision making utilizes systemic thinking as the prime motivation for the decision making methods and techniques we have described in the previous 17 chapters. However, this is not simple decision making, but decision making associated with ill-structured, wicked situations where multiple problems are presented as messes. Hence, the title of the book: Systemic Decision Making: Fundamentals for Addressing Problems and Messes. Hopefully, each of you has been able to take away the following key points.