This text shows that good solutions do not emerge on their own, but are designed, refined and executed with a clear, client-centered objective in mind. The author provides a toolbox to help build skills in developing realistic goals and valid hypotheses, planning the solution project, exploring plausible alternatives, driving execution and forming consultant-client relationships through trust and commitment. The book also includes techniques like the logic diagram, which tests the validity of a potential solution, and offers real-life examples of the designing solutions approach.