4 problem-solving tips from the world's 'scrappiest organizations'

Nov 21, 2023

In this book, 'Four Workarounds', Paulo Savaget highlights the four most common unconventional approaches to problem-solving. Image: Paulo Savaget

Pooja Chhabria

Digital Editor, World Economic Forum

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Paulo Savaget's book The Four Workarounds placed on a table to showcase its front cover.

Savaget researched 'scrappy organisations', a term he uses to define small, feisty organisations that don't necessarily have access to big budgets but find ingenious ways of getting things done. Image: Paulo Savaget

Boats travel by a shallow transportation canal cut through a cleared peat swamp-like forest in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island November 14, 2010. Rainforests cover 60 percent of Indonesia, and yet the country is one of the world's leading emitters of the greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. The reason is that Indonesia also has one of the planet's fastest rates of deforestation. Picture taken November 14, 2010.To match Special Report CLIMATE DEFORESTATION/INDONESIA REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad (INDONESIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)

Paulo Savaget cites the example of a social entrepreneur who used discarded mobile phones to combat deforestation in the Indonesian part of Borneo.. Image: REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad

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