Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems

by Betty Vandenbosch

Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems is an essential resource for managers and consultants who help organizations resolve ambiguous problems and develop new opportunities. Taking a hands-on, practical approach, Betty Vandenbosch―a leading management consultant and educator―outlines the details on how to conduct a proven process for designing solutions. Designing Solutions for Your Business Problem s will teach you how to curtail investigation and generate and justify ideas without sacrificing thoroughness, creativity, persuasiveness, and fit. You will be able to capitalize on more opportunities, and your problem-solving skills will become more efficient and your solutions more compelling. This book will help you design better solutions and design them faster. Betty Vandenbosch offers a variety of useful techniques such as the "scooping diagram," which provides a framework for action, and the "logic diagram," which tests the validity of a potential solution. In addition, the book contains illustrative real-life examples of the Designing Solutions approach from a variety of organizations.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Ursula · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unoriginal and useless advice. There is nothing interesting or helpful here that you couldn't get if you sat down with a pen and paper and thought through your problem. The writing is also really poor in many places. This is a complete waste of time.