Swedish Morphological Society

General Morphological Analysis (GMA) is a computer-aided, constraint-based modelling method for structuring and analyzing the total set of relationships contained in multivariate, non-quantified problem complexes. Originally developed for strategic decision support at the Institute for Technology Foresight and Assessment (at FOI - Stockholm), it is used by government agencies, international NGOs and academic research institutes for modelling complex policy and planning issues, developing scenario and strategy laboratories, and analysing organisational and stakeholder structures. GMA is especially useful for working with so-called Wicked Problems.

Featured Articles [download in PDF]

General Morphological Analysis as a basic scientific modelling method [For TFSC]
Applications of GMA: From Engineering Design to Policy Analysis [For AMG]
Problem Structuring using Computer-Aided Morphological Analysis [For JORS]
Morphospaces - A Catalogue of 52 Morphological Models from selected GMA Projects [For AMG]

For more, visit our On-line Journal: Acta Morphologica Generalis

»   BOOK: In the Beginning was Chiasmus: On the Epistemology of Non-quantified Modelling
     To be released on 30 July (E-Book) and 20 August (Hardback) 2026, by De Gruyter Brill.
     [Download Preprint Introduction: "The science of cross-classification"]
     [Download Preprint Chapter 4: "Plato, cross-division and the genesis of modelling theory"]

»   BOOK in progress: Conceptual Modelling, Combinatorial Heuristics and Ars Inveniendi: An Epistemological History
     [Download Chapters 1 & 2] Introduction and Theoretical Background
     [Download Chapter 4] Ramon Llull and the Combinatorial Art

»   PREPRINT: "Futures Studies using General Morphological Analysis" (2026). For the Millennium Project's forthcoming
     Futures Research Methodology Series, Version 4.0. [Download PDF]

Also featured:
° Book on GMA from Springer: Decision Support Modelling with Morphological Analysis.
° Article from Academia Letters: General Morphological Analysis: An overview.
° Visit the home page of the Second International Symposium on GMA, Bilbao 11-12 June, 2016.
° Download short descriptions of GMA in 13 languages: GMA multi-language summaries.

Download a detailed Prospectus

For information on licensing and on-line training contact: morphologics@swemorph.com

Reduced-price morphological modelling "at-a-distance". [Download details]

Swedish Morphological Society

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