Understanding first principles is the basis of all understanding - Dr. Kaye Remington, PGCS, Canberra, Australia, August 14, 2018
Kaye goes on to say - The problem comes first, then information and knowledge is developed to reveal the attributes of the problem that can provide the solution to the problem.
This is the basis of Root Cause Analysis. The conditions and activities need to be discovered first. Only then can solutions be identified.
When we start with a solution and fail to identify the cause of the problem in the form of conditions and actions we will fail to provide a credible solution and the problem will remain to recur.
And all too often when we fail to understand this principle, we get
A solution looking for a problem to solve
