How Companies Solve Problems The Wrong Way. Having spent years working both in the industry and as a consultant, here are the top five things I've seen companies get wrong about problem-solving: ...

By jumping immediately into problem-solving, teams limit their ability to design innovative solutions. The authors recommend that companies spend more time up front on problem-framing, a process ...

When this team started aligning the problem-solving process with the Mission-Vision statement they had a single point of focus to guide them in making decisions. It became a template of sorts for ...

To write a problem statement, break the process down into three steps: gathering information, describing the problem and revising until it's ready for your problem-solving team. Step 1. Gather ...

ONE of the problem-solving lessons I learned from Toyota was called the "A3 thinking." Developed in the 1940s, it was a concept based on the A3 sheet of paper, which is 11 by 17 inches in size, at ...

I asked teacher after teacher, from pre-K through university level, how they teach problem-solving skills, and time after time I was told, “We give students problems to solve and then step back ...

To tackle the problem for one client, a Fortune 500 insurer, Contract Intelligence was trained on five different products: long-term disability, short-term disability, vision, dental and life ...

Problem-solving therapy is a mental health approach that teaches people to break down problems and ... This process may provide immediate relief from stress and equip people with the skills to ...