Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems - (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) by Betty Vandenbosch (Mixed Media Product)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems</i> 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. <p><i>Designing Solutions for Your Business Problem</i>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.</p> <p>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 <i>Designing Solutions</i> approach from a variety of organizations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><i>Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems</i> 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.</p><p><i>Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems</i> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><i>Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems</i> and the companion website contain the tools and techniques you need to</li><ul><li>Reach consensus about the areas that you will investigate</li><li>Make your logic transparent and open to legitimate debate</li><li>Maintain the discipline to design the solution that meets the objective and best fits the organization's will and skill</li><li>Nurture commitment and develop support during the problem-solving process</li></ul><p><i>Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems</i> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>It elegantly, concisely, and persuasively shows consultants how to more effectively structure their problem solving. (<i>Consulting to Management</i>, Vol 15. No. 4, 6/1/2004)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>BETTY VANDENBOSCH</b> is associate professor of information systems at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She is also a director of PDN Limited, a professional services development firm specializing in consultancy skills training.</p>
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