Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems: A Structured Process for Managers and Consultants [With CDROM]

By Betty Vandenbosch

Book Overview

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 Problems 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787967653
• ISBN13: 9780787967659
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent read for all managers

Great book___ easy to read with several real life examples. The process described provides a framework to solve any problems/issues that arise in any business project.

A Must Reference Book for Managers

The content is easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to put into practice. I am already using some of the methods from the book in everyday problem solving...mostly for work. I have read many great books on problem solving, consulting, and process improvement. This book sort of took the best of everything and made it more holistic. It definitely shows the level of real world experience the author probably has.The book provides solid process for problem solving. Fortunately, the book does not get into fine details on exactly what to do. Experienced managers know that no two problems are the same, and that with a good process they can apply their own thinking and skills to get to the resolution. Finally, the process the author lays out would help on the softer side of the business as well...such as in building a collaborative team with clear goals and objectives. One too many times I've seen teams fall apart because of unclear goals and conflicting objectives.I recommend this book for every person that has to manage process or people...perhaps that is everyone.

A Must Reference Book for All Managers

The content is easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to put into practice. I am already using some of the methods from the book in everyday problem solving...mostly for work. I have read many great books on problem solving, consulting, and process improvement. This book sort of took the best of everything and made it more holistic. It definitely shows the level of real world experience the author probably has.The book provides solid process for problem solving. Fortunately, the book does not get into fine details on exactly what to do. Experienced managers know that no two problems are the same, and that with a good process they can apply their own thinking and skills to get to the resolution. Finally, the process the author lays out can help on the softer side of the business as well...such as in building a collaborative team with clear goals and objectives. One too many times I've seen teams fall apart because of unclear goals and conflicting objectives.I recommend this book for every person that has to manage process or people...perhaps that is everyone.