Inspiration
The inspiration for STPrism comes from C. West Churchman’s adage which pin-points the importance of perspective and ‘seeing through the eyes of others’
Whilst the literature of Systems Thinking contains any number of references to perspective there is less information on practical and accessible techniques to access these critical perspectives.
Prior Art
Eden’s SODA presents a technique to structure, in hierarchical form, perspectives and integrate perspectives from different individuals. Checkland’s SSM describes the importance of the dialectic process but gives little detail about how this works in practice. Snowden’s anthro-complexity suggests a way of capturing a wide range of opinion and classifying these perspective by theme. Warfield (ISM) and Beer (Team Syntegrity) describe specific methodologies to capture and integrate ‘points of view’. Williams recognises the importance of perspective in conceiving and framing systems.
The Perspective Bootstrap
Much of the discussion on perspectives concerns the importance of perspective for those engaged in the study but the study itself is the subject of the perspective of the designer or analyst. It is a classical bootstrapping issue: if the approach taken to capture different perspectives limits these same perspectives, such as approaches which ignore Wilk’s model free ideas, then no manner of work on the detail of perspectives can repair this deficit.
In STPrism we use the consolidated QSet - itself an amalgam of analyst perspectives - to frame and compose the prompts for use in Gemini. This produces a