Editing Morphological analysis (problem-solving) (section)

==Decomposition versus morphological analysis==
Problems that involve many governing factors, where most of them cannot be expressed numerically can be well suited for morphological analysis. 

The conventional approach is to break a complex system into parts, isolate the parts (dropping the 'trivial' elements) whose contributions are critical to the output and solve the simplified system for desired scenarios. The disadvantage of this method is that many real-world phenomena do not have obviously trivial elements and cannot be simplified.

Morphological analysis works backwards from the output towards the system internals without a simplification step.<ref>Modelling Complex Socio-Technical Systems Using Morphological Analysis (Ritchey 2003-06)[http://www.swemorph.com/pdf/it-webart.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124133/http://www.swemorph.com/pdf/it-webart.pdf|date=2007-09-29}}</ref> The system's interactions are fully accounted for in the analysis.