Vol. 2: design-management.de

As you might have noticed there is a lively discussion going on regarding my posting “Defining Design (Management) | designfeast.com” from last tuesday.

The initiator of this discussion is Jörg Walters a german fellow now living and doing business in Amsterdam/NL. You can visit him on the web at: www.design-manager.nl and browse for more information about his company.

Guest Blogger Jörg Walters writes: … I consider my work as helping companies to make design a success factor of their business. And as many organizations haven’t used that before at all, my work doesn’t only mean high-fly strategies of the type “You should do it like Apple does”. Much more, I am trying to generate certainty at the client side that creativity is manageable and that design is a competitive advantage. … >>>

So here comes some fresh stuff for the weekend: A few minutes ago BusinessWeek Online has released their latest online edition devoted to Design. >>>
While observing that BW has even named Bruce Nussbaum as Editorial Page Editor for Design Topics, it seems that this is the decade where particularly US/UK magazines like: FastCompany, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, […]

While my last posting on “Design (Management) Definitions” evolved from heuristic web browsing it seems to have attracted two readers: Jörg Walters (Amsterdam/NL) and Mark Fenwick from ‘nesta’ (London/UK) to post their highly interesting comments.
While Jörg states that Designers and Design Managers shouldn’t claim to have answers to every problem, Mark provides a good […]

Summer is back again here in Germany :-) So for today only a quick post about a well assembled list of design definitions I’ve discovered on designfeast.com recently. Beside delivering some current stereotypes on design the list provides an array of interesting definitions on design related to different contexts:
- On Design Advice
- On Design and […]

Wow, I find more useful stuff to post about than I can manage at the moment! Today I’ve received a note from an Open University Business School colleague, Jim Yates from Fulcrum Management, about “Disruptive Innovation” and “Creative Destruction”.
If you know Harvard’s B-School Professor “Clayton Christensen” (see my book recommendation on sidebar of this […]

Recently I’ve been directed to a nice and quite personal blog maintained by Niti Bhan. She seems to have worked as Director, Graduate Recruiting at the Institute of Design, IIT and wrote for Core 77.
These days she is working as an independent consultant in the area of design, business and management: Well chosen combination […]

While blogging in germany just starts to kick-off as a serious activity, marketers from anglo-saxon countries already start reasoning about the value and opportunities weblogs create and offer for corporations.
This week’s online issue of “brandchannel.com” is offering a paper on “Developing Effective Communication Strategies for the Blogsphere By Brenna Tinkel”.
Her paper seeks to address […]

while the news that Apple computer is planning to use Intel processors in the near future popped-up in the media for some days now, I haven’t spent too much time on this issue, yet.
this morning I’ve been directed to an interesting article by Robert X. Cringely via the blog of a former “B820 Strategy”, Open […]

tangible outlines at the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen/Germany emerge more and more. in the upcoming year the school will get a thrilling architectural space.
parallel to that content development together with the establishment of a network of professionals and academics is on its way as well. with my “Think Strategy” workshop […]

these days seem to be the days of blogger networks. it’s amazing how many profesionally edited and designed blogs are out there in the meantime. I’m currently thinking about how to integrate this in my daily blogging as well. more to come …
while * vol. 1: design-management.de * seemed to be quite unique two years […]

So here it comes: volume 2.0 of the design-management.de weblog. after almost 2 years of posting with the same site design I thought it might be time for a major redesign.
while the most obvious change is the page layout including the typography and the visuals you will notice that there are also slight changes […]