Vol. 2: design-management.de

Well I returned from a well deserved holiday recently and it’s amazing to see how much can happen in the blogshere within a week only …! Beside all the other (digital; mostly email) stuff to be caught…

Research Report: Management Practices across Firms and Nations
The Centre for Economic Performance and McKinsey & Company has used an innovative new methodology to survey management practices in over 700 firms in the France, Germany, the UK and the US. Analysing this data they demonstrate a surprisingly large dispers
(tags: reserach study McKinsey report designthinking cross_country management […]

Well, this time I do not have to provide you with a long introduction about my latest guest blogger since Sabine Junginger has been so kind to share some of her professional and local ;-) background with us. Sabine is another great contact which has been enabled by communicating via this blog.
In any case […]

It is quite an honor to be invited as a guest blogger on this site. I have followed Ralf’s blog for a while now and we have discovered that some of the issues I am looking at in my work very much relate to the concerns and interests of the participants of Vol. 2: design-management.de.
Before […]

Ebay to Acquire Internet Communications Company Skype
Interesting short analysis of the Ebay - Skype deal and the alternatives Ebay could have considered
(tags: ebay skype merger synergies sensemaking technology MIT)

Design Continuum - News: The creative future
Very interesting article by Bruce Nussbaum et al. about US corporations applying design strategy and design thinking
(tags: article design continuum nussbaum […]

WorldBlu l Designing Democratic Organizations | Traci Fenton via Mike Wagner

The WorldBlu Forum pairs highly successful CEOs, best-selling authors, high-stakes revolutionaries, technology gurus, and emerging leaders with the next generation of business thought-leaders. The Forum invites attendees to use organizational democracy
(tags: forum organizational democracy conference business design)

I almost forgot to mention that CORE77 listed my blog (among others, but right in front of Seth Godin’s one! ;-) in their recently released “ Design Directory ”. The Directory seems to be a joint proj…

Yes, again Apple and the iPod … actually I have a good reason to write about Apple one more time since I hope to get my brand new iPod Nano (white surface) this week! Gee, I can’t wait to touch this tiny little gadget ;-)
If you would have asked me two years ago if I […]

My first bring your “right brain” to work seminar was held in July 2005. The Iowa Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGAIowa) sponsored this event on the campus of Drake University.
These are the initial lessons that I have taken away from my preparation and delivery of the seminar.
First, this is still a […]

It’s been a while since I’ve placed my latest posting. Beside doing some “real work” ;-) I’ve changed the roles and spent some time visiting other blogs and reading inspiring things written by blog friends and people at: CPH127, Perspective (Niti Bhan), All this chittah-chattah (Steve Portigal), Noise Between Stations (Victor Lombardi) and the other […]

The McKinsey Quarterly: What global executives think about technology and innovation
Some empirical facts from a recent McKinsey survey with a focus on the impact of technology on innovation
(tags: mckinsey article technology innovation executives)

BW Roger Martin: Creativity That Goes Deep | from early august 2005
Embracing design-shop approaches to problem solving means having to shed some key characteristics of how traditional companies work
(tags: article business creativity design innovation thinking BW businessweek)

Behind Apple’s Strategy: Be Second to Market : HBS Working Knowledge
IPod is a household name and Apple continues […]