Solving the Pieces
You’ve been diving into the nuance of problem solving and with good cause. You can’t be creative without problems to solve. However, the prickly aspect of problems is that they are rarely simple. Most problems are complex webs of cause and effect. If you solve one part well, another rises to whack you on the back of the leg with a stick. To effectively solve complex problems, you can benefit from breaking the problem into discernible mini-problems and then solving the pieces.
Problem dissection can present creative opportunities that could otherwise be missed if a problem is solved as a whole. Every problem can be dissected to ...
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