Archive for February, 2006



Inverted Tautologies and Design Management Positions

Published on February 16, 2006

Do you want to become a “Manager of Design” or a “Designer of Management”? In the context of my earlier posting on “What is Design Management?” I’ve found the following job advertisement by Pricejamieson recently:

“Recruitment Consultant - Design Management:Do you have a passion for brands and a knowledge of design management? Would you like to […]


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Wikipedia entry on Design Management

Published on February 15, 2006

Gee, its seems as if I’ve been caught by the flu; at least it feels like it ;-(
Therefore today only a short pointer to a quite new Wikipedia entry about design management. It came to my first time attention some weeks ago while I’ve studied my server log files and noticed several referrers from […]


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Private sidenote: Ben Beuker is born …

Published on February 11, 2006

On the 10th of February at 23:00 hrs. my wife gave birth to the most beautiful baby in the world and Finn’s new brother: Ben :-) With 50 cm and 3.000 gr. he’s doing pretty well and Astrid is doing fine as well. We’re happy …
P.S.: If Ben would have waited some 60 minutes longer we […]


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What is Design Management?

Published on February 8, 2006

In the light of the recent discussion we’ve had at Niti Bhan’s blog about the impact of strategy on design thinking I’d thought that it might be useful to re-post a blog posting I’ve written for the brand new Zollverein School of management and design blog (which I also co-edit for the next couple of […]


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Reasoning about Bill Gates and Design Thinking …

Published on February 5, 2006

Via the mysterious MITD I’ve stumbled upon “Management Focus – the free newsletter from ManagementFirst” and in their latest issue I’ve found the following quote by Bill Gates:
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied […]


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