The problem for a lot of enterprises was that formal methods like TRIZ appeared to be too formal, or somehow not relevant (I think the opposite, TRIZ is highly relevant).

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Here was a complex problem: how to reconcile Britain's traditional gift for formal ceremony with the modern desire for the human touch.

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Problem was, she had never written a book, and had little formal authority to do so.

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The problem here was that it was not clear that had he asked for a formal declaration of war he would have gotten one.

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The problem, however, is that policymakers may not want to make their domestic monetary policies subject to formal exchange-rate targets for the sake of global currency-market stability.

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