decision making and problem solving are especially important skills for business and life. as an innovation leading corporate, sony has gradually lost their superiority in innovation and core competences under more and more intensive competition environment. this report is made to investigate sony current procedure on its solving problems and making decision, analyze approaches and tools used b...

aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. we believe the aesthetics of management is important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. we propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. in this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in man...

Our experience of past problems can offer valuable insights into the solution of current problems, though since novel problems are not merely re-occurrences of those we have seen before, their solutions require us to integrate multiple sources of inspiration into a single, composite whole. The degree to which the seams of these patchwork solutions are evident to an end-user offers an inverse me...

Three experiments investigated how individuals solve “shape” problems. These problems are not susceptible to a meansends strategy. They consist of a configuration of squares, whose sides consist of separate pieces; and the task is to remove a given number of pieces to leave behind a given number of squares. The paper presents a theory of how individuals develop strategies for these problems. Ex...