The following is an excerpt from People Solve Problems: the Power of Every Person, Every Day, Every Problem (2021: Old Dutch Group), the latest book by IndustryWeek lean leadership contributor Jamie ...

The Office of Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Education and Research will host a “Friday Night at the ER” workshop Thursday, Nov. 7, from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Samson Pavilion of the Health ...

Systems thinking and critical thinking are distinct yet complementary cognitive tools essential for effective problem-solving. Systems thinking allows businesses to understand and address the broad ...

Albert Einstein famously said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” In turbulent, uncertain, novel and ambiguous (TUNA) times, one skill that will never ...

Systems thinking is used among writers, artists, scientists, and, yes, CEOs. When you’re running a company, there are always areas that can be improved, especially as your business grows. As Donella ...

Expert systems builders construct computer programs that capture some aspects of human problem-solving performance in a narrow domain of expertise. The narrowness and shallowness of the knowledge ...

For more than 20 years — and after working with more than 10,000 participants who attended my Kaizen workshops — I’ve refined a simple yet powerful tool that makes problem-solving useful for everyone.

We’ve all experienced that magic moment when, after countless frustrating hours of experimentation and racking your brain, the object of our attention starts working. The 3D printer finally produces ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Many entrepreneurs immediately concentrate on the issues at hand, which makes it more difficult to come up with solutions because you’re ...