Mesa Company is making strategic moves in its US operations aimed at boosting its global standing. The firm, known for its problem-solving method, wants to become the de-facto alternative to large ...

As a problem-solving genius, everyone comes to you with the toughest questions and the unsolvable conundrums. You’re the one everyone wants on their team, because you can see seven steps ahead and ...

When I worked in manufacturing, we worked tirelessly to reduce job changeover time. Like a Nascar pit crew–the analogy productivity consultants always used–we hunted for 10 seconds here, 20 seconds ...

How would you describe your company’s problem-solving culture? I have asked any number of managers that question; as often as not, it’s received with a blank stare. Most managers haven’t thought about ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Businesses often follow a define-plan-execute method of problem solving: spend time up front rigorously defining a problem, develop a ...

Whether we identify a problem that inspires us or are given a problem to solve, how creative our work on it will be depends on how we think about it. What aspects of the problem can we focus on? How ...

I begin by listing four quite striking, possibly counterintuitive findings from research on problem solving. 1. People who show the symptoms of ADHD—notably, a tendency to be easily distracted from ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

Children are natural problem-solvers long before they can explain what they are doing. A toddler figures out how to stack blocks without them toppling. A preschooler experiments with every possible ...