Planning is a key part of staying productive, but it has to be done right. To succeed, you need to understand why previous attempts at planning didn’t pan out. Conducting a personal after-action ...

Palantir's Alex Karp is not the typical tech CEO. It makes sense then that one of the big data company's foundational principles is rooted in the lessons of a 1970s Toyota executive. Karp is a firm ...

Asking “Why?” may be a favorite technique of your 3-year-old child in driving you crazy, but it could teach you a valuable Six Sigma quality lesson. The 5 Whys is a technique used in the Analyze phase ...

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 ...

The Five Whys is an interrogation technique, formalized in the 1950’s, designed to explore cause-and-effect relationships as related to specific problems. The number of “whys” is taken from the ...

Northvolt CEO and co-founder Peter Carlsson announces his resignation during a press conference in Stockholm. Photo: Getty Images Some business leaders are great at persuading investors to part with ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp swears by a method that helps employees get to the root of a problem. Karp has said the Five Whys method "can often unravel the knots that hold organisations back." The approach ...