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, ...

Systems thinking and critical thinking are distinct yet complementary cognitive tools essential for effective problem-solving. Systems thinking allows businesses to understand and address the broad ...

Google's SRL framework provides a step-by-step "curriculum" that makes LLMs more reliable for complex reasoning tasks.

"Blame has no place in our firm. Fix errors by focusing on solutions, not assessing blame. Learn from mistakes and use that knowledge to improve our processes. Mistakes are critical component of ...

Nature builds problem-solvers through real-life challenges The post How the Forest Teaches Problem Solving Better Than Any ...

When paired with the power of ChatGPT, the six-hat method presents a powerful framework for effective problem-solving. It allows us to master the art of navigating through the diverse landscape of ...

On factory floors and in production facilities across America, manufacturing leaders face relentless pressure to increase output while reducing costs. When quality issues, equipment failures, or ...

Gisèle Huff is one of the nation’s most spirited advocates for the transformation of elementary and secondary education (K–12) through school choice and increased use of computer technology. She is ...

Traditional university lectures are likely not an effective way to help post-secondary students acquire problem-solving skills. In a recent study, researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus developed a ...