Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable ...

Taiichi Ohno had a mission. As a diligent production engineer at Toyota during the 1940s and 1950s, he wanted to eliminate waste and inefficiency in the company's production processes. After the war, ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading association for project professionals and changemakers, today announced the launch of Wicked Problem Solving®, a ...

Cambridge, MA – Managing a power grid is like trying to solve an enormous puzzle. Grid operators must ensure the proper amount of power is flowing to the right areas at the exact time when it is ...

Beef production from conception to consumption is a complex biological system where cause and effect are often distant in time and space. For example, things that occurred to a calf while it was ...

At an Huntsman Cancer Institute Clinic, providers are often delayed in how soon they see a patient during a new visit appointment. Typical delays (wait time) from check-in to provider page was 20 ...

As Christopher Alvarado neared the spring semester of his senior year at Rutgers Business School (RBS), he learned that he could graduate early. However, as president of the Rutgers University Supply ...

THE late American radio speaker and author Earl Nightingale once said that “successful people are not people without problems”. They are simply people who have learned to solve their problems, he said ...

A new study finds that problem-solving cockatoos can combine simple tools to accomplish a task, which is a cognitive ability that only a very few primates were previously known to perform The goal of ...