Complex Solving

Although routine actions can’t solve complex problems, specific fixed steps can help you find solutions to complex problems easily. Here are the steps you should take when solving a complex problem:

1. Analyze the problem
In order to solve a complex problem, you must understand the entire nature of the problem. We recommend breaking down the complex problem into simple parts to fully understand it. After you’ve broken the problem down, consider how every uncertain outcome affects each part.

2. Brainstorm Several Possible Solutions
After analyzing the problem, you need to come up with several solutions to a single complex problem. Multiple solutions are better than one solution because you may not find the right solution to a complex problem during your first attempt.

However, you will still have other possible solutions to attempt even if the first attempt fails, as long as you devise multiple solutions. We recommend that you brainstorm solutions to complex problems as a team rather than brainstorming alone. You will come up with great solutions from various perspectives as a team.
Ensure the solutions you come up with don’t have negative impacts. If a few solutions have minor negative impacts, the impact must be insignificant compared to the negative impacts of the original problem.

3. Test the best solutions
Pick the best solutions out of the several ones you’ve come up with and test them one after the other until you find a suitable one.

4. Make Necessary Adjustments
There may be a need to make a few changes to some of the solutions you came up with after testing them, especially when unforeseen circumstances occur at the testing stage. Therefore, you must be ready to make a few changes