How Can You be Expected to Solve Important Business Problems—If You Were Never Taught How?

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How to Diagnose and Solve Important Business Problems Using Systems Thinking: Introducing a New Approach for Consultants, Business Analysts, MBAs, and Professionals

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About the author

Dr. Rick Hubbard, The Business Problem-Solving Guide

Dr. Rick Hubbard
Business Problem-Solving Guide

Dr. Rick Hubbard—Business Problem-Solving System (BPSS) Guide, author, and developer—is a lifelong student of systems science, computer science, software engineering, strategy, and financial analysis.

Rick’s five-decade career includes:

  • Management consulting & business analysis;
  • Enterprise software architecture & engineering; and
  • Business & technology strategy & financial analysis.

He has also served as a collegiate professor; seminar leader, and author.

In 1980, Rick joined KPMG—a prestigious global consulting firm (at the time known as Peat, Marwick & Mitchell)—after serving as a US Air Force Officer designing and developing reconnaissance and surveillance software systems in an Intelligence Agency. From his intelligence agency and consulting firm days onward, he learned first-hand as a professional advisor, business & technology executive, strategist, enterprise software solutions architect, and university professor that:
In a career spanning five decades, Dr. Hubbard developed deep expertise and unique insights applying:
  • Systems Science,
  • Systems Thinking,
  • GST (General Systems Theory),
  • Cybernetics,
  • System Dynamics,
  • Causal Inference,
  • Decision Science,
  • Corporate Strategy, and
Financial analysis to diagnose and solve imporant business problems adversely affecting business behavior and performance. While doing so, he earned multiple degrees in Computer Science and an MBA.

Based on decades of applying systems principles to these demanding challenges, Rick Hubbard developed, refined, and proved the Business Problem-Solving System by solving hundreds of complex, non-obvious business problems.

Today, Rick serves others as the Business Problem-Solving Guide—equipping Management Consultants, Business Analysts, MBAs, and other professionals to competently diagnose and solve problems adversely affecting business behavior and performance.

Dr. Hubbard has led Business Problem-Solving System engagements for numerous Fortune 250* clients in such varied industries as:
  • Financial services,
  • Telecommunications,
  • Manufacturing,
  • Distribution,
  • Enterprise Software,
  • Air Transportation,
  • Consumer Marketing, and others.

*Under Non-Disclosure Agreements, which prohibit revealing the identities of client organizations.

In addition to providing independent management consulting and professional seminar services, Rick’s career includes employment with:

  • KPMG (Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ),
  • Business Sciences Corp. (Scottsdale, AZ),
  • FDIC (Denver, CO),
  • MCI Telecommunications (Colorado Springs, CO),
  • BEA Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA),
  • FAST Search & Transfer (San Francisco, CA),
  • Serena Software (Redwood Shores, CA),
  • Webtrends (Portland, OR), and
  • California State University System (Professor).

Tools to Transform Your Career

This is not what you think it is.

In this book—and each of the Business Problem-Solving System (BPSS) books—you will not find an easy read stuffed with simple yet glossy answers (that you already know) and over-promising a quick way to dispatch the real-life, messy, complex problems you encounter in the reality of your professional life.

Because diagnosing and solving business problems isn’t rocket science—it’s harder…much, much, much harder—what you will gain from the Business Problem-Solving System are authoritative guides to the effective use of proven and repeatable data-analytic-logico approaches to diagnose and intervene in business behavior and performance.

Throughout the BPSS, you will also gain knowledge and insights that can transform and accelerate your career with rare, valuable, and difficult-to-imitate skills, expertise, and abilities—
—to authoritatively get it right; the first time…because:

“You can’t fix what you don’t understand. Without understanding cause—there is an unbounded risk that any intervention will fail.”

Do you want to:

  • Apply your inquisitive mind to gain unmatchable understanding?
  • Figure out how and why businesses and technologies behave and perform the way they do?
  • Expertly use data, analysis, and reasoning to make sound, well-supported decisions?

Do you cringe when people around you:

  • Make unsubstantiated and unverified claims?
  • Rush to solution…without pausing to understand the problem?
  • Ignore the reality of ‘what is’ because of politics?

Worse? How about when others deny what is because reality contradicts the politics of
what’s wanted?

If so—

—then, welcome, because:

This book is for and about you.

Chapters

Pages

Mastering Business Problem-Solving is the first book in the Business Problem-Solving System.

Other books in the BPSS Series

BPSS Six Key Questions (Book 2)

BPSS Diagnosis (Book 3)

BPSS Solutions (Book 4 – Late 2025)