Vol. 2: design-management.de

Some years ago I’ve worked as a senior consultant for the “first integrated design corporation” in Germany: design.net ag (today the company is part of Peter Schmidt Group). Interestingly the company has been the springboard for several professionals who today are international experts in design management (but that’s a different story ;-)
In any case design.net […]

If you’re interested in seeing what (sometimes ;-) is possible when (young) design did not meet management, yet then you should visit DESIGNSPOTTER.COM
One of the founders, Markus Gogolin (Cologne) contacted me a while ago and for reasons I can’t recall these days I didn’t find the time blogging about it. Anyway, meeting Ton on Tuesday […]

In early June I’ve blogged about “reboot8.0” a conference on “the intersection of digital technology and change” which I’d have loved to attend. Unfortunately I couldn’t join this year, but yesterday Ton Zijlstra and I celebrated an informative “reboot de-brief” here in Münster at my favorite Bagel Cafe.
While you can read the short anecdote about […]

I’ve been contacted by one of Germany’s biggest business magazines last week. As they are planning to publish a series of articles on Design, Creativity and Business Innovation they’ve asked me to inspire them with some according names and schools.
While I clearly have my own internal list (but do not want to bias your perspective […]