Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems
by Betty Vandenbosch · first published 2003
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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
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I do indeed. Here's a complete list of books I recommend when asked - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Books.aspx The one that made the biggest impact on my approach to architecture is "Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems: A Structured Process for Managers and Consultants" by Betty Vandenbosch. The one that made the biggest impact on me in ever is "Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions" by Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet…
on “Architecture.md” ↗Thanks and yes it is. The model is in fact an extrapolation of Microsoft's Solution Framework from the '90s. On the problem solving side I was far more impressed by a book from Betty Vandenbosch (Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems: A Structured Process for Managers and Consultants) than I was by Prince.
on “Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating” ↗…Playbook seems to focus here most. That leaves managing risk and stakeholders, and the post-project review. A better guide might be had from the management consulting world - like Betty Vandenbosch's book Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems. My own architecture cheat sheet is https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Consulting.aspx For sure there are some templates in the architecture playbook that I'm going to read through to find gaps in my…
on “Architecture Playbook” ↗