Some problems are solvable, and some just aren’t. That doesn’t mean they’re not worth tackling, though. Knowing the difference is half the battle. Most tech leaders regard problem-solving as a ...

In this two-part team project, students investigate a "Wicked Problem" (a complex water sustainability issue) and present their findings through an Assertion-Evidence presentation and a research ...

Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

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 ...

While reading Oxford University professor Thomas Hale’s Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across Time, I kept thinking of evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould’s ...

Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates. The philosopher Karl Popper once argued that there are two kinds of problems in the world: clock problems and cloud ...

The education industry is among the slowest of industries to adapt and innovate, and higher education faces a number of complex, pervasive challenges if it is to survive and meet the needs of students ...