Affiliations: Department of Water Resources, School of Civil Engineering, Architecture,
and Urbanism, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil | FAH - Adventist College of Hortolandia, CES, Hortolandia, SP, Brazil
Abstract: The methods, techniques, and classical approaches for the
identification and characterization of a problem does not seem to neither
please, nor fully answer the complex problems of contemporary society in a
speedy manner. The complexity of today's problems requires the adoption of
innovative tools, problem-centered rather than in effects or preconceived
solutions. The human development is an entrepreneurial process by the
comprising societies, and should be directed to the human being and its
context. This scope emphasizes the notion of process, the complex, the trans
disciplinary, as well as the use of strategic action research investigations.
The purpose of the article converges to a type of social engineering aimed at
defining strategic elements to form an approach directed at identifying the
real problem. Known as "The Approach to Complex Problem Solving Oriented toward
the Principles of Process", the proposal is based on existing theoretical
framework of a problem and on the principles of the world view in the process,
casting light on the problem and not the solution.
Keywords: complexity, problem-oriented approach, process design, transdisciplinarity
