The Monthly “Problem-Solving Master” Book Tuning: Creative Problem-Solving Feb. 2020

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. Problem-solving is both art and science.


The purpose of “Problem-Solving Master - Frame Problems Systematically and Solve Problems Creatively“ is to throw some light on how to understand, frame, and solve today’s multilayer, interdependent, and over-complex business problems effortlessly. Digital leaders and professionals should self-aware of their role in problems, show professional maturity, and develop a good reputation as the problem-solver.

          Problem-Solving with Intentional Novelty 

Problem-Solving With Intentional Novelty Fundamentally either running a business or living life is an iterative problem-solving continuum. There are strategic problem solving from a long term perspective and tactical problem solving on a daily basis.

How to Create Multiple Pathways for Problem-Solving? Fundamentally, business or societal progress is made via a healthy cycle of problem-framing and problem-solving continuum. There is no magic formula for problem-solving, With the increasing pace of changes and shortened knowledge cycle, the best practices are outdated sooner than ever and “commonly known” methodology could be no longer working anymore when the circumstances change dramatically. You can't always wait for the "best" solution to emerge. It is important to experiment, explore, engage, and create multiple pathways to solve problems creatively.

IT Architecture & Creative Problem-Solving In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, problems become over-complex and interdependent. Architecture could be a problem-solving framework that consists of multiple aspects, and the multiple aspects could be architected in their own right. Architecture is an ingredient of planning and designing for creative and systematic problem-solving.

What’s the Logical Problem-solving Scenario to Solve Problems Creatively? It is important to get out of the "fear" that blocks creative genius inside us, learn how to liberate imagination and come up with a new approach to problem-solving. Creative problem-solving is about how to think unconventionally or from a new perspective for either defining or solving old or emergent problems. There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. Problem-solving is both art and science.

Change, Creativity, and Problem-Solving Change is not for its own sake, the very purpose of the change is often for problem-solving, progression, or innovation. From Change Management perspective, taking people through new experiences, exposing them to additional "information" through those experiences, developing their creativity, and doing that very purposefully will create the opportunity to shift attitudes, beliefs, mindsets that ultimately will cultivate their problem-solving capabilities.

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