What happens when you strategically apply divergent, convergent, and combining thinking skills to your projects? You increase value realization, accelerate stakeholder engagement and ultimately, ...

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 ...

From a young age, many of us are taught to think in terms of solutions—how to ride that bike, solve that math problem, get into that college. This solution-based thinking tends to follow us into the ...

Running your own company can be extremely exciting and overwhelming at the same time. You spend every waking moment doing everything to ensure the continued growth of the company, but at some point, ...

SRC navigates challenges among its 10 plants and roughly 1,800 employees companywide. That workforce includes around 1,550 ...

Problem-solving is an essential life skill that involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving challenges effectively. Have you ever found yourself staring at a problem, feeling like you’re trying to ...

That is the offer Rick van Pelt, M.D., and his team in Clinical Practice Transformation (CPT) make to units across UAB Hospital. CPT serves as a kind of internal consulting group, part of the ...

Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) editor Brian Straight’s Straight Talk newsletter of October 27, 2024, brought up a subject that really hits home with me, and one that was very relevant as I was ...

Mathematicians excel at handling complexity and uncertainty. Mathematical reasoning strategies aren't just useful for dilemmas involving numbers. We can apply math mindsets to improve our approach to ...