How would you describe your company’s problem-solving culture? I have asked any number of managers that question; as often as not, it’s received with a blank stare. Most managers haven’t thought about ...

From a young age, many of us are taught to think in terms of solutions—how to ride that bike, solve that math problem, get into that college. This solution-based thinking tends to follow us into the ...

SRC navigates challenges among its 10 plants and roughly 1,800 employees companywide. That workforce includes around 1,550 ...

Running your own company can be extremely exciting and overwhelming at the same time. You spend every waking moment doing everything to ensure the continued growth of the company, but at some point, ...

Start with trust and end with speed. When it comes to solving complicated problems, the default for many organizational leaders is to take their time to work through the issues at hand. Unfortunately, ...

Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) editor Brian Straight’s Straight Talk newsletter of October 27, 2024, brought up a subject that really hits home with me, and one that was very relevant as I was ...

That is the offer Rick van Pelt, M.D., and his team in Clinical Practice Transformation (CPT) make to units across UAB Hospital. CPT serves as a kind of internal consulting group, part of the ...

Mathematicians excel at handling complexity and uncertainty. Mathematical reasoning strategies aren't just useful for dilemmas involving numbers. We can apply math mindsets to improve our approach to ...

The impact of COVID-19 on national and global supply chains has dominated discussions in boardrooms and at dinner tables since the beginning of the pandemic. From meat and toilet paper shortages in ...