Perhaps all the talk of customer development, lean startups, crowdsourcing, and the myriad bits of startup lingo has obscured the simplest truth: Starting is about problem-identifying and problem-solving.
On paper I think it's a good idea to get everyone involved - everyone feels like they have a piece of solving the problem - but in reality, I think it'll probably be a mess.
Hoover applied his problem-solving skills to the problem of the Great Depression.
Speed--of implementation, of problem solving--shows IQ and commitment.
Based on our assessment of the group we designed a variety of challenges, including a complex, multi-sport problem-solving event.
Then, the best technocrats, who could move easily between public and private sector, applying the same top-down problem-solving skills to both, were people such as Robert McNamara, recruited as defence secretary by John F.
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In large companies, cross-functional problem-solving rarely happens.
It seems that Mr Riordan is fulfilling the promise another multimillionaire, Ross Perot, unsuccessfully held out in 1992: to run a business-oriented, non-partisan, problem-solving government.
Management-consulting and problem-solving are very different from intelligence-gathering.
Even financial companies say those students often have sharp critical-thinking skills and problem-solving techniques that business majors sometimes lack.
The work starts with discussions focused on client objectives -- making a visual statement, drawing a particular kind of traffic, solving a spatial problem -- and moves into the design phase, rendering two or three different ideas.
The National Adult Literacy course addresses a broad range of skills including reading and writing, basic numeracy, listening actively and responding appropriately, developing ICT skills and self-strategic learning, applying problem-solving techniques to real life situations, engaging in critical and consensual discussion, planning performance to attain goals and enhancing interpersonal skills to improve teamwork.
The country was tired of polarization, and Mitt could provide a problem-solving antidote, a demonstrated ability to bring a Republican solution -- the individual mandate -- to a problem that Democrats traditionally cared most about.
The subjects of the study were asked to solve a particular problem-solving task previously used in other psychology studies researching problem solving.
With these practices, community-based projects become exercises in collective problem-solving.
The community-based project promotes crowdsourcing, or collective problem-solving.
In the second part, another 59 subjects, wearing eye-tracking devices, watched short video clips of the problem-solving exercise.
The holistic vision of the programme is evident in the six learning strands within the Accreditation and Equivalency Sub-Programme, namely communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving, sustainable use of resources and productivity, self-development, a sense of community and expanding one's world vision.
The first five weeks were almost all pair-programming all the time, which was really helpful for problem-solving and learning Python syntax, processes, etc.
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Perhaps counter-intuitively, the best military negotiators adopt a creative, problem-solving approach.
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It was, said Carwyn Jones, "an exceptionally historic day" - thereby solving the problem of how to differentiate between different levels of historic days.
As they add more collaboration, social and brand-ready features, Springpad is solving the problem of what to do with human-curated data for the next generation.
"I ... am always ready to assist in problem-solving, intervention and prevention, " she wrote.
It doesn't promote the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are essential for good quality learning.
It's a pragmatic, problem-solving agenda, and it's not so far from President Clinton's agenda.
As the other climber in this comment thread said, climbing is all about problem-solving.
The planet is full of problems, and who better to harness problem-solving brilliance than designers?
Executives expect a certain amount of ridicule for their unconventional and risky approach to problem-solving.
Afterwards, all 40 were given a creative problem-solving task (technically a word association task).
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