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:: Vol. 2: the design management weblog | by ralf beuker :

Archive for March, 2006



DMI Workshop Slides | Amsterdam 2006

Published on March 31, 2006

I arrived at the DMI conference hotel slightly later than expected yesterday afternoon. However I was just in time since people were leaving for the reception sponsored by Heineken at the Heineken Experience Brewery. At the hotel lobby I’ve met some of the folks I’ve wanted to meet and we’ve had a nice walk to […]


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European DMI Conference | Amsterdam March, 29-31st 2006

Published on March 29, 2006

Well I’m almost off to Amsterdam to deliver my “Blogging for Design Leadership” Workshop on Friday for the 10th DMI European International Design Management Conference. From the list of participants (which seems to be the biggest ever with some 175 design professionals mainly from across Europe and the US) I’ve already spotted some friends, several former […]


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Facets of Design Management: Apple vs. Microsoft

Published on March 16, 2006

March seems to be a busy month this year as well … however we see us at the DMI Conference in Amsterdam, right? In the meantime via Bruce Nussbaum I’ve been directed to this nice parody on (by!) Microsoft and packaging design called “Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging”. While watching the highly entertaining video it instantly reminded me […]


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Why Know-How does not necessarily result in a good product or service!

Published on March 8, 2006

In the light of my previous posting thanks go to Jess McMullin for pointing to a study by Elke den Ouden of the Technical University of Eindhoven. Jess links to a posting by Anders Bylund on ars technica from which I quote here:

“Her (Elke Den Ouden) research shows that half of all electronics returned to stores for […]


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Design Management for SMEs

Published on March 7, 2006

After suffering far longer than anticipated from the flu for almost two weeks I’m happy to be back again :-) - On the other hand not reading my bloglines feed collection for almost a week has been inspiring as well since there are so many well written postings to be explored now.
Beside browsing loads of new stuff […]


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