In an ideal world, problems would melt away. But this side of the rainbow, we’re left to solve them on our own.

My odd explorations were part of a five-step innovation method I’ve used for many problem-solving projects as a marketer, consultant and analyst. Biological evolution uses essentially the same ...

Application to everyday problems: When you encounter a solution that works really well, reverse-engineer it. For example, if you usually hate running on the "dreadmill," but one day you quite enjoy it ...

When faced with a problem in maths, there are four key steps to think about: To help make these steps a bit clearer to follow and understand, there are a number of easy to remember acronyms (a ...

To learn the steps of a mediation process and see that it is just a more formalized way of doing the basic steps of problem-solving Put the word "conflict" on the board. Hand out paper and pencils.

Fortunately, problem-solving skills are not difficult to attain once we know how to organise them into steps. Follow our five ...