Designing Solutions For Your Business Problems

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 opportu nities, 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 "scoping 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. Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems and the companion CD ROM contain the tools and techniques you need toReach consensus about the areas that you will investigateMake your logic transparent and open to legitimate debateMaintain the discipline to design the solution that meets the objective and best fits the organization¿s will and skillNurture commitment and develop support during the problem solving processDesigning Solutions for Your Business Problems is written for people who are concerned with improving organizations. If you are a manager who understands the benefits of combining creative and analytical approaches to problem solving or a management consultant eager to hone your skills, this book is for you.