Policymakers should continue to focus not on the so-called "root causes" of crime but on the proximate cause of crime — ...

More than four million migrants have flocked to the southern border since Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned the task of addressing the "root cause" of the crisis nearly two years ago. U.S.

Are you relying on gut feel to diagnose difficult problems in your organization? If the answer is yes, there is a good chance you are going to be led astray. Why? Because “until you really take the ...

How do you fix broken customer experience and other business problems? Get to the root cause of the problem — the actual root cause. In my previous CMSWire article, I wrote about whether it’s better ...

Sakichi Toyoda created the "Five Whys" (5Ys) as a method for identifying root causes of errors or problems way back in the early years of Toyota. He claimed that by asking "why?" five times, one could ...

Kiran Karnik writes that air pollution persists because responsibility is shifted and root causes remain unaddressed ...

The Biden administration assured us that addressing the “root causes” of illegal immigration would solve the problem (not a crisis!) at the border. The thinking was that as people had more ...

During a recent visit to a skilled nursing facility, a nurse made an insightful comment that stuck with me: “You can’t unscramble eggs.” This simple yet profound statement highlighted the difficulty ...

Learn how root cause analysis and integrated data prevent hydropower bearing failures, reduce costly downtime, and improve ...

Don't look for the quick fix if you want to prevent future equipment failures. Find the problem's source by examining tires and reviewing DVIRs to ensure the problem doesn't happen again. Under the ...

Have you ever felt like you're playing a frustrating game of Whac-A-Mole with tech problems? You fix one bug, only for another to pop up somewhere else. This is especially relevant when you're ...