An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

Padraic Monaghan receives funding from ESRC, RES-000-22-4049. Have you ever struggled to finish a level of Candy Crush or complete a Sudoku puzzle in the evening but breezed through it the following ...

Often leaders will think they are driving a problem-solving culture by insistent, or even just encouraging, team members to utilize the tools and templates of problem-solving. However, most ...

This study is part funded by the ERDF Interreg Ireland-Wales programme 2014-2020 through the Dŵr Uisce project. Dŵr Uisce is led by Prof. Aonghus Mc Nabola (Trinity College Dublin), Prof. Paul ...

Five steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions by Julia Binder and Michael D. Watkins When business leaders confront complex problems, there’s a powerful impulse to dive right into “solving” ...

One of the most common (and deadly) mistakes in entrepreneurship is creating a solution before identifying the problem. You might think you have the next big idea, but have you really done the ...