Like Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting, individuals can solve more complex problems quicker and more efficiently than Internet-based group brainstorming, researchers at Sandia National ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Paris climate agreement is another example of an attempted grand solution to a ...

The term wicked problem has become a standard way for policy analysts to describe a social issue whose solution is inherently elusive. Wicked problems have many causal factors, complex ...

Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

So, what’s the brief? And, so begin most of our long-winded, presentation-laden solutions in the advertising business today. Not the problem, but the brief. Imagine all those start-ups that are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The 63-year-old was killed in a head-on collision near Rich Farm Ice Cream, officials ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Prosecutors noted in court papers that she has already had such a request denied twice ...