Vol. 2: design-management.de

… busy, busy, busy … I’m far behind with topics I’d like to write about, struggling with “writers block” symptoms (at least for this blog) ;-) and new business opportunities which are appearing on the horizon …
Anyway while I’ve promised to share some more conference impressions from the KISD 2006 DM conference this morning I’ve stumbled […]

Yes, I’m alive and on the road quite often these days … in any case from my latest postings you will have noticed that it’s conference season ;-) Lot’s of interesting stuff going on in Europe and the US these days … While talking about design and business conferences last weekend I’ve participated in the 3rd […]

Victor Lombardi from Noise Between Stations reports about it and Mark Vanderbeeken on Putting People First (PPF) as well. So what else is there to say that Rotman School of Management has dedicated the spring issue (PDF, ~ 5.5 MB) of their magazine to “The Creative Age”.
While I’ve just browsed this issue so far, beside Roger […]

Yes, I admit that I love to browse the logfiles of this blog since I’m always curious about the broad range of nationalities who visit Vol. 2: design-management.de.
Each month I get a steady stream of visitors from Switzerland (ranked among the Top 10). Somehow unnoticed from the mainstream design, management and business education the Swiss […]

Small and smart conferences seem to become an accepted alternative to the big gatherings these days. Some years ago in late 2003 as well as in 2002 I’ve co-organized the first two Design Management forums at the Köln International School of Design (KISD) chaired by Design Management Professor Brigitte Wolf.
While these two conferences had a […]

(Sidenote: This is an edited posting which I’ve originally written for the Zollverein School of management and design) As some of you know, I’m not a trained designer. My educational background is rooted in Business Administration. However working in the domain of design management for many years now has taught me a lot of things […]

I know, I know, my posting frequency isn’t at my “normal” level these days and it’s a mixture between workload due to other projects and some critical reflection on the direction and purpose of Vol. 2 which prevents me from posting more often these days …
After all there is indeed a lot to write […]