Vol. 2: design-management.de

when it comes to discussing the contribution (and value) of design and design management to corporate performance people tend to demand for hard facts. hard facts in this case means: give me the numbers!
consequently a noticeable number of articles and design management disseration have been written about the value of design (management) investments ranging from […]

well, it seems that I’m somehow behind my internal schedule in terms of reporting about the symposium we held last weekend in cologne at the KISD.
this week has been quite busy and I had to neglect my blog a little bit. however some interesting new opportunities occured which are also on my posting list. therefore […]

I hope you all had a safe trip back home!
to summarize the symposium from the feedback received so far: it was a real success! thanks for all your attention and participation.
you will get more detailed information in a series of posts I will start by tomorrow. therefore: stay tuned!

by today the full capacity of the symposium (90+) has been reached. therefore no further registrations will be accepted!
thank you for your understanding!

every business student should have heard at least about michael porter’s [HBS] value chain concept. [however I’m not quite sure if he is really the inventor of it; maybe just a good promoter and marketer] design management students from my module ’straegic management and the business of business) at the ‘Master of Design Management’ programme […]

congratulations to the dutch soccer team ;-) greetings to cohort 1 at INHOLLAND university!

as reported in an earlier post the spectrum of definitions about ‘design management’ is quite diverse. however what most professionals agree upon is that managing ‘corporate identity’ is one of the core elements of design management.
consequently corporate logo design definitively belongs to the area of interest for a design manager. in an article which […]

in these tough economic times we often wonder which kind of corporate and business strategy will prove to be successful in the long run.
while market saturation is the status-quo for the majority of consumer goods in most western industrialized nations there are still markets niches to be uncovered. and believe it or not there […]

today I had a conversation with a designer about my weblog or blog. she criticized the amount of text & information in relation to the visual representation of meaning and purpose. in some way she was right. [however I’m happy see that this blog works as it is working now. she and you can be […]

it seems that the design scene brings up its own ‘hero’ in a regular pattern. some ‘heros’ seem to be more pushed by media and other ‘zeitgeist’ phenomena others are attracting attention to their work itself.
a member of the latter group was invited by the university of applied sciences in münster under supervision of prof. […]

as promised some days ago today I continue with presenting another guest speaker of the 2nd KISD design management symposium on november 21./22. 2003 in cologne.
today I’ll like to introduce fabian schmid managing director of squid from zug/switzerland. after spending many years in the US, he founded squid in Zug (Switzerland) in 1996. fabian successfully […]

when it comes to discussing what design management is about (see the post from 28.10.03 last week) the discussion comes to branding very quickly. the commitment of the Design Management Institute (DMI) to dedicate a complete conference to the topic of brand & corporate identity is another indication of this link.
even though I see branding […]