Palantir CEO Alex Karp swears by a method that helps employees get to the root of a problem. Karp has said the Five Whys method "can often unravel the knots that hold organisations back." The approach ...

Asking “Why?” may be a favorite technique of your 3-year-old child in driving you crazy, but it could teach you a valuable Six Sigma quality lesson. The 5 Whys is a technique used in the Analyze phase ...

The 5 Whys is a well-known problem-solving tool. Initially developed in 1970’s by Sakichi Toyoda to help improve the Toyota production, it is now taught in business schools across the country – and ...

Planning is a key part of staying productive, but it has to be done right. To succeed, you need to understand why previous attempts at planning didn’t pan out. Conducting a personal after-action ...

Teachers can use a questioning strategy originally from the business world to guide students to confidently develop and defend their thinking.

Benito Piuzzi is the COO of Lakeview Loan Servicing and former McKinsey consultant where he specialized in large-scale transformations. Problem-solving is a core competency needed in any business to ...

Rob De La Espriella is the creator of BlueDragon, a problem-solving system used by the US national laboratories and nuclear facilities. United States businesses are silently hemorrhaging trillions of ...

Problem-solving therapy (PST) helps individuals manage stress by breaking down challenges into practical, manageable steps. The aim of the therapy is to help people cope more confidently with ...