Vol. 2: design-management.de

Proceedings on Design Thinking Forum
Collection of Papers from the 6th Design Thinking Research Symposium at the University of Technology, Sydney Australia 17-19 November 2003 initiated by Nigel Cross
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In Niti Bhan’s recent posting ‘Fear of blogging’ she’s describing the blogoshere as follows:

“As with any large high school :) there are cliques and groups and popular kids and football players and cheerleaders and dorks and nerds.”
Those of you who hang out with the ‘cliques’ (and I do it myself from time to time as […]

Today Dominic Basulto, editor of the FORTUNE BusinessInnovation2005 blog just released a posting on Vol. 2: design-management.de called “German innovation: you are beautiful and angular” [Nice title, Dominic] ;-) As written in my posting from Tuesday this week it’s amazing how much relevant content & news they’ve put together within the last couple of weeks. – […]

Today Bruce Nussbaum shares some impressive insights and figures on his Innovation & Design blog at BusinessWeek. In his latest posting Bruce states by referring to Larry Keely (co-founder and president of the Doblin Group in Chicago) that:

“… innovation is beginning to give up its secrets.” He (Keely) said that today, companies can increase their […]

Please read my call for open collaboration on “DesignThinkingInstitute.com”. The basic idea is to provide free access to the blog interface which enables you to write and share your own postings on ‘Design Thinking’ on the Institute’s blog.
So far my intention is to keep the blog open at least for the stage of “Collecting” […]

It’s amazing how many great blogs are edited these days and I’ve reported earlier that it seems almost impossible to trace them all. Fortunately free web-based tools like Bloglines monitor and collect RSS-Feeds for you and alert you (optionally) each time a new blog posting has been written in the blogosphere.
If you track some 40+ […]

If you’re a regular reader of the blogosphere you certainly have read that Peter Drucker, the most influential management writer of the modern era (Financial Times) born in Vienna, Austria in 1909 died last Friday …

Regular visitors of my blog might have noticed that I’ve participated in a conference about organizational democracy two weeks ago. Beside the fact that I still owe you some impressions from the forum…

If you’ve ever been interested in how we Europeans and the Germans, Swiss and Austrians in particular are living at our average home sweet homes you should visit this site created by one of Germany’s hippest advertising agencies Jung von Matt (found via Spiegel Online).
Jung von Matt is extending their (what I call “ethnographic research”; look […]

Fast Company Interview with Rita Sue Siegel
A nice complement from Fast Company & Rita Sue Siegel to the recent Core77 article on what companies should consider when investing in design services
(tags: article Rita_Sue_Siegel Fast_Company Fastcompany designthinking designservices)

Rita Sue Siegel from New York has been a DMI Sponsor for a while. Her company is active in the area of Design Recruiting Services and a recent posting in Bruce Nussbaum’s blog has led me to her corporate website. Beside various CC stuff you find some nice PDFs on her site about Design Leadership […]

Most of us bloggers as well as blog readers are pretty familiar with the impact blogs might have on our business and private lives. However I find it quite astonishing as well that there is still a la…

Niti Bhan and Steve Portigal are not only BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum’s favourite bloggers, but also mine ;-) The two crafted a highly recommended article on Core77 about issues to consider before h…