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“Bring me solutions, not problems” a boss in my early career constantly refrained. And sure, anyone can spot problems, or can we? Paul Danner gives us an idea of getting to new problems…
On a certain level the argument that “anyone can point out problems, but only people who think well and creative can present possible solutions” is certainly valid. However, a case can be made that the discovering of problems is itself a creative endeavor. To meet the challenges of the 21st century, we need artistic imagination to co-create the planet’s best approaches and most influential solutions (Adler, 2010) to a wide variety of complex and ill-defined problems. If change across the global landscape continue to be complex, unprecedented in its pace, and even chaotic the only types of problems will be those categorized as ill-defined. Thus problem identification; an organization wide and systematic pursuit of scanning and interpreting the internal and external environment will be critical for organizational survival. What is needed is creative problem identification.
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