Albert Einstein once said, “If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.” While that may sound extreme, it does highlight the ...

Businesses often follow a define-plan-execute method of problem solving: spend time up front rigorously defining a problem, develop a solution plan, and execute. This sounds simple enough, but ...

When you work in a consulting role, there’s an urge to dive into solutions the moment you’re presented with a problem. After all, that’s what you’re there for, right? Clients come to you with ...

Solving the question everyone, no matter the political stripe is asking: How do you build more homes that people can afford?

The first step in solving any problem is defining the problem correctly. It's here, at step one, where we're already failing in how we're thinking about our nation's fiscal crisis. Despite the fact ...

A recent HBR article by Oguz Acar from King’s College London rejects the idea that Prompt Engineering is the hottest job of the future, declaring instead that problem formulation is a higher-order, ...