Dan Arthur, the president and chief engineer of ALL Consulting, stands beside a defunct oil well in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma on March 20, 2024. The well has not been used for years — ...

The first task is always to determine in which administrative domain the problem is occurring. None of these teams will ever admit that they might be the source of the problem, so test tools are ...

Business leaders should adopt concepts like problem finding, rather than problem solving, to help teams be more creative. In some business situations, the need for creativity is obvious: research and ...

Cybersecurity expert Robert Hannigan’s new book—Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-Solving and Creativity—draws from the rich history of codebreaking at Bletchley ...

A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...