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Burns, Barbara A.; Jordan, Thomas M. – Industry and Higher Education, 2006
Business managers are faced with complex decisions involving a wide range of issues--technical, social, environmental, and financial--and their interaction. Our education system focuses heavily on presenting structured problems and teaching students to apply a set of tools or methods to solve these problems. Yet the most difficult thing to teach…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Holistic Approach, Models, Thinking Skills