Palantir's Alex Karp is not the typical tech CEO. It makes sense then that one of the big data company's foundational principles is rooted in the lessons of a 1970s Toyota executive. Karp is a firm ...

Asking “Why?” may be a favorite technique of your 3-year-old child in driving you crazy, but it could teach you a valuable Six Sigma quality lesson. The 5 Whys is a technique used in the Analyze phase ...

Have you ever felt like you're playing a frustrating game of Whac-A-Mole with tech problems? You fix one bug, only for another to pop up somewhere else. This is especially relevant when you're ...

Some business leaders are great at persuading investors to part with their money and terrible at operating companies. Last week, after raising $15 billion in debt and equity, Peter Carlsson, founder ...

On April 16, Robert Rose published an article for the Content Marketing Institute describing a concept in problem solving called the “5 Whys.” Developed by Sakichi Toyoda, it was originally used ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp swears by a method that helps employees get to the root of a problem. Karp has said the Five Whys method "can often unravel the knots that hold organisations back." The approach ...