In a previous article entitled, "What Are Problems?" we theorized that problems cannot or do not exist—at least, not in the way we've been taught to think about them. Because all we have are ...

Sakichi Toyoda created the "Five Whys" (5Ys) as a method for identifying root causes of errors or problems way back in the early years of Toyota. He claimed that by asking "why?" five times, one could ...

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

Incident response teams across application reliability, infrastructure resilience, information security, and system and technology support are continuously trying to solve mysteries with missing ...

Chatbots aren’t cool, and their usefulness is debatable. Here’s how we can do better with AI than a chatbot. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, ...

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 ...

To the average American not employed as an industrial engineer or a member of a problem-solving team at some big business, the term “root causes” would have seemed obscure until a few weeks ago. But ...

To solve issues, we need to know the real reason or the root of the problem. What is interesting is that with gardening issues, many times the “root of the problem” is the roots. Unhealthy roots can ...

Pope Francis gives candies to child during a meeting on Italy's declining birthrate at an auditorium in Rome May 10, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) ROME (CNS) — Blind, unbridled consumerism and ...

Read more about local philanthropic efforts in the Year-end Giving Guide. “I went over to the Kent Commons park there,” Jason Lacy recalls, “and I saw some of the other homeless guys. I’m like, ‘Hey, ...

Growing up in Zambia, Choolwe Mandona did not always plan on becoming an engineer. “I actually was pretty afraid to do engineering,” said Choolwe, who graduated from Miami University in 2013 with a ...