Pragmatic inquiry refers to a process that involves inquisition into how people (communities, stakeholders and decision makers) may take action to solve a problem with the idea that it can make a practical difference around the globe (Book of reading, p. 1). In most cases physical events resulted to conflicting ideologies from scientists and philosophers hence the need to find a better way to interpret problems so as to design better ways to act in the future when such problems present themselves again (Ormerod, 2006 p. 893) . The pragmatic inquiry process is not fully scientific citing the need to design appropriate social systems (strategy formulation) to provide a solution to a social conflict. The process results from pragmatism which is an epistemology meant to create and deal with substitute interpretations of the same substantial authenticity.
Strategy formulation refers to a supposed procedure of participatory inquiry to determine how an organization might act in future usually used in the aspects of developing a new product, a new marketing strategy and reshuffling or employing new workers. Research indicates that all successful interdisciplinary exercises employed pragmatic inquiry as a strategy to address several intellectual concerns that would otherwise not be dealt with all together in a selected period (Book of reading, p. 2-7). Pragmatic inquiry is effective in strategy formulation as it leads to finding of solutions to problems that we care about from a scientific and philosophical perspective (Baggini, 2007 par. 1-4). Secondly, pragmatic inquiry make it possible to have epistemic values of research hence allowing for the standards of accuracy and veridicality set by the requirements of the problems to be unraveled. In most cases, the selected alternative solution always produces best results that can be used for a given period of time and even used as reference by other organizations.
References
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Ormerod RJ (2006). The history of pragmatism. Journal of Operational Research Society, 57: 892-909.
