When I was 18, I bought a Vespa ’67: the famous Italian scooter. It was already very old then, totally beaten-up, but luckily I had a friend who owned an auto-repair shop, and he was kind enough to ...

With as many problems as we are all faced with in our work and life, it seems as if there is never enough time to solve each one without dealing with some adversity along the way. Problems keep ...

Business leaders lack such brisk solutions for their problems today. Global competition, networks, and stakeholder empowerment are transforming former manageable, bounded challenges into endless ...

Effective problem solving is a key component to responsible management and the survival of a business. Though the problems encountered may differ between industries and companies, resolution ...

If you're stuck trying to solve a problem, try the obscure. "There's a classic obstacle to innovation called functional fixedness, which is the tendency to fixate on the common use of an object or its ...

Strategic problem solving is a critical business skill, for both management and front-line workers. For management, a large portion of strategic problem solving involves predicting problems that ...

It started with one project, one wheel on one vehicle. The fix was worth $50 million in additional revenue for General Motors Co. But more importantly, it illustrates how GM is knocking down old, ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...