Event-oriented thinking is ineffective in dealing with complex problems or systems. As our society has changed over time, event-oriented thinking has not evolved along with it. The problems we are faced with today often require a deeper understanding than event-oriented thinking allows. Events can have more than one cause, and each cause can have multiple causes as well. If we don’t take these more complex relationships into account, we can also mistakenly miss the unintended consequences that may result when we begin to alter systems. That is beyond the scope of event-oriented thinking.
