Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Innatelearning&problemsolving

A new paradigm arises out of new mindsets, updated knowledge, fresh insight, and structural approaches to problem-solving.

People are complex, business is complex, and society is complex today. More often than not, those existing or emergent problems are also complex. Problem-solving today has a very wide scope, intricate factors, more often than not, lack of knowledge and scarcity of insight leads to poor problem-solving for the long run. 

Thus, Solving complex business problems requires accelerated digital mindsets, continuous learning, leveraging multidisciplinary knowledge and insight, taking an end-to-end response, a structural and an iterative approach.

Thriving in a continuous learning mode with the intellectual curiosity to enjoy problem-solving:
With exponential growth of information and knowledge is only a click away, learning needs to be a life habit for people to develop their capabilities and become differentiated professional competency. True problem-solvers have the intellectual curiosity to dig into the root cause, learn the complexity of issues facing them, guide people through them; find common ground, initiate dialogues to do cause-effect analysis, turn around the tough situations, and enjoy the challenges about complex problem-solving

Outdated knowledge or conventional wisdom create gaps in problem-solving. Thus, in reality, there are more problem creators than true problem solvers because trying to solve a problem without fresh knowledge will create others. If you only fix the symptom, not the root cause, then it perhaps causes more problems later. And that is why our world today still contains more problems. If you don’t have a sound solution to each newly created problem, you’ll have very little chances to succeed solving the main problem, and everything is connected.

Learning-understanding-problem-solving:
In the digital era, we will be confronting a number of high-complex problems in the hyper-connected world. Learning and gaining knowledge is only the first step in deepening understanding of issues you want to solve. Knowledge by itself is nothing if you do not understand how to apply it and make it useful for problem-solving. Understanding requires a person's ability to grasp or comprehend knowledge, enhances learning-unlearning-relearning cycle to capture insight and abstract wisdom.

A solution is vague or temporary if the problem is not perceived comprehensively. Until the underlying problem is addressed, the symptom will continue to return. How deep your understanding is based on the mindset, logic, philosophy, or methodology you leverage to interpret things, clarify causes, and solve problems smoothly. Interdisciplinary learning is in demand as cross-boundary knowledge and science can be applied to complex problem-solving, which involves principles, philosophy, psychology, social norms, and sociology, etc. It is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context, the root cause of a problem, or the core issues of a situation which leads to premium resolution.

Learning-innovating-problem-solving:
The knowledge cycle is shortened significantly; so they need to continue learning and growing. The goal of learning is not only to absorb knowledge, but also to generate new knowledge or update old knowledge, to stimulate fresh ideas, and initiate innovative problem-solving. That means learning knowledge is not for its own sake, digital professionals develop an effective set of filters that help them find new knowledge that interests them and refine them into valuable insight to accomplish their work creatively.

Creativity is part imagination and part knowledge. Imagination is the seed to grow innovation, knowledge is the land to nurture innovation. A responsible use of knowledge is not an impediment to the imagination. Knowledge can be useful in trying to understand if what's imagined can be achieved for solving problems innovatively. In practice, trying to think out of the box and seeing things from different angles , seeking new knowledge are the necessary steps in innovative problem-solving.

As we move forward towards the digital era with information exponentiality, uncertainty, the problems become over-complex and interconnected. You can't always wait for the "best" solution to emerge. A new paradigm arises out of new mindsets, updated knowledge, fresh insight, and structural approaches to problem-solving. It is important to keep learning, experimenting, exploring, engaging, gaining cross-disciplinary knowledge, and creating multiple pathways to solve problems innovatively.

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