The following is an excerpt from People Solve Problems: the Power of Every Person, Every Day, Every Problem (2021: Old Dutch Group), the latest book by IndustryWeek lean leadership contributor Jamie ...

Rob De La Espriella is the creator of BlueDragon, a problem-solving system used by the US national laboratories and nuclear facilities. United States businesses are silently hemorrhaging trillions of ...

The healthcare delivery system that supports rural America is chronically ill. It has quietly suffered for decades, declining despite various attempts to solve its many complicating factors. Given the ...

To achieve climate justice, biodiversity, and health equity goals, most societies need rapid change. From equitable policies and low-carbon infrastructure to values like collaboration and fairness, we ...

In 2017, former-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy wrote in the Harvard Business Review that loneliness is a serious healthcare problem. Then, early last year, the United Kingdom appointed a ...

The awards were announced this week at the 2019 AHA Summit Leadership in San Diego. Social determinants of health is a topic of great concern to health systems these days, and participants at the 2019 ...

Kaiser Permanente said it would put $200 million toward initiatives targeting housing insecurity and homelessness. Geisinger is scaling up what it calls its Fresh Food Farmacy program—set up to help ...

A piecemeal approach will not remedy centuries of racial injustice. To ensure the state leads the nation in the health and well-being of its residents, equity must guide every decision. In the past ...

FSNet is a new problem-solving tool that can find the optimal solution to an extremely complex problem without violating any of the problem’s many constraints. Developed at MIT, FSNet could help power ...