ABSTRACT

Project management is often concerned with improving the current condition and can therefore be viewed in terms of a process moving from a problem, or an opportunity for improvement, towards a solution. In problem solving parlance it is assumed that we are seeking to transform from the current ‘problem’ space to some desired state which represents the ideal solution. If our problems are simple, the logic goes, so might the solutions be. In a carefully ordered world a sequence of steps could therefore guide us along a structured route from the perceived problem to the target solution.