Problem solving

This article analyses the five primary steps in problem-solving and gives a list of required skills needed to solve problems. It also includes a mini-guide about How to Make Your Skills Stand Out

Navi Radjou has spent years studying “jugaad,” also known as frugal innovation. Pioneered by entrepreneurs in emerging markets who figured out how to get spectacular value from limited resources, the practice has now caught on globally. Peppering his talk with a wealth of examples of human ingenuity at work, Radjou also shares three principles for how we can all do more with less.

 The purpose of this tool is to provide a Team Leader and his or her leadership team with a structured process for identifying a problem, understanding the root causes and coming to agreement on solution steps.  The tool includes different steps:

1.      Identify the problem: what do we want to change?

2.      Analyze the problem: what’s preventing us from reaching the desired state?

3.      Force Field Analysis: what could help or hinder our efforts?

4.      Brainstorm Solutions: how can we make the change?

5.      Select and plan the solution: what is the best way to do it?

6.      Action Plan:who, what, where, when, and how to evaluate? Who to involve, enroll, get input?

You will discover, as you read through our pages on problem solving, that the subject is complex. However well prepared we are for problem solving, there is always an element of the unknown. Although planning and structuring will help make the problem solving process more likely to be successful, good judgement and an element of good luck will ultimately determine whether problem solving was a success.

This guide include different tips to problem solving.

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Article with 6 tips about how to take advantage of a problem and transform it in an opportunity