In a previous article entitled, "What Are Problems?" we theorized that problems cannot or do not exist—at least, not in the way we've been taught to think about them. Because all we have are ...

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Sakichi Toyoda created the "Five Whys" (5Ys) as a method for identifying root causes of errors or problems way back in the early years of Toyota. He claimed that by asking "why?" five times, one could ...

The effect, before the fix, was that sometimes the rear camera image wouldn't display. Again, that can lead to an increased ...

Incident response teams across application reliability, infrastructure resilience, information security, and system and technology support are continuously trying to solve mysteries with missing ...

To the average American not employed as an industrial engineer or a member of a problem-solving team at some big business, the term “root causes” would have seemed obscure until a few weeks ago. But ...