Both these phenomenon, Colonialism and Imperialism, have been the forces at the roots of major problems which the world is facing today.

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 ...

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

To the average American not employed as an industrial engineer or a member of a problem-solving team at some big business, the term “root causes” would have seemed obscure until a few weeks ago. But ...

A safety incident report usually identifies the precipitating event. It doesn’t identify the small failures that led to it. In many cases, those failures aren’t just three deep but far deeper. One way ...

Pope Francis gives candies to child during a meeting on Italy's declining birthrate at an auditorium in Rome May 10, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) ROME (CNS) — Blind, unbridled consumerism and ...

Note: This is the fourth blog in a series about how our views of truth and reality contribute to some of the problems we experience as individuals and as a society. I don't claim that what I say is ...