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 ...

The skill that made your managers great individual contributors is what's preventing their teams from growing. New research ...

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, ...

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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 ...

While we can’t fix everything, there’s a fundamental truth that most large problems begin as small problems that, left unattended, grow or propagate. There are always plenty of problems to be solved.

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 ...