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

Archive for April, 2006



Interview with new DMI President: Tom Lockwood

Published on April 28, 2006

As you might have noticed the Design Management Institute (DMI) has a new President since the beginning of 2006. This month Tom Lockwood who introduced himself in person to the design management community at the recent European DMI Conference in Amsterdam has been interviewed by Brigitte Borja de Mozota (DMI Lifetime Fellow) on his new role […]


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Overlap | Non-profit conference on business and innovation

Published on April 25, 2006

Some good news comes from California about an upcoming event/initiative on the intersection of Business and Design called: Overlap. From simply browsing the list of organizers it seems that again the forefront of business and design thinkers/bloggers is based in the US and California in particular (wish I could be there ;-). Just to name […]


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links for 2006-04-18

Published on April 18, 2006

Understanding Marketing Psychology and The Halo Effect
Al Ries explains the core idea of the “Halo Effect”. While being a model from Psychology an understanding of its basic idea can be very useful for design managers as well when it comes to negotiating with marketing and briefing your designers …
(tags: “Halo Effect” marketing models “product versioning”)


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Why design managers must write | DMI Conference review | Part II

Published on April 7, 2006

First of all I have to correct my statement from last week that 50% of the people I’ve talked to at the recent DMI conference haven’t heard about blogs.
In fact the situation has been slightly different. Yes, I’ve met a lot of people at the latest DMI Conference who haven’t heard about … What? Blogs? […]


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DMI Conference Sniplets | Part I

Published on April 4, 2006

While I’ve returned from the DMI conference last Friday night, I’ve again had to leave to Frankfurt for conducting my last Open University MBA Strategy workshop for this semester on Saturday morning early. Consequently I’ve been quite tired and lazy on Sunday and I’ve had to catch up with my email yesterday … So, now’s […]


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