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Problem Solving

When things go very bad, very fast.

Every now and then a little thing becomes very big, very fast. You see this on the roads almost every […]

Want a lateral solution? Go with the flow.

A cardiologist once explained to me that there was only a finite number of things that could go wrong in […]

Got a problem you just can’t solve? Maybe it’s time for a metaphor.

A recent conference of community organisations assembled to address a pressing problem: they just weren’t getting the volunteers they needed. […]

On wicked problems.

Imagine a problem so mysterious, so fluid and so fiendishly complicated that it was impossible to comprehend, let alone solve. […]

Know what the problem isn’t.

In 1854, London was devastated by the mysterious spread of cholera and the finest scientific minds of the time were […]

Ask why, not how!

We have heard over and over again that today’s solutions often become tomorrow’s problems.  If this is true then how […]

The problem solver’s keys

Imagine a peace summit called to resolve some ancient conflict. The delegates are people with deep, personal experience of the […]

The joy of problems.

Do you enjoy Sudoku, or is the cryptic crossword more your kind of thing? Maybe you prefer those devilish nine-letter […]