Archive for December, 2006



Merry Christmas 2006 and a Happy New Year 2007

Published on December 25, 2006

I don’t want to go too sentimental here, but I’d still like to wish you all “Merry Christmas and a happy New Year”!
For several weeks now I’d wanted to share some of my experiences from conferences, workshops and lectures on “Design Management” and “Corporate Blogs” … however as always too much other things to do […]


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On Maria Montessori and Design Thinking

Published on December 13, 2006

Those of you who know me a little bit closer know that a part of my annual revenues come from lecturing activities in the areas of design management and post-graduate MBA (namely Strategy) education.
Ever since I’ve finished my MBA eleven years ago a lot has changed in the landscape of (under) graduate and post graduate education […]


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links for 2006-12-13

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Podcast von BMW: Design bei BMW mit Chris Bangle
This time a resource in German only from a BMW podcast with Chris Bangle Head of Design for BMW Group. Bangle considers the new design language initiated by the 7-series some years ago as successful since he has noticed several iterations of the design ba
(tags: BMW “Chris […]


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LEGO and Design Leadership (Revised)

Published on December 1, 2006

[Note: This posting is a revised version of my posting from November 30st. While I did not change the body text I’ve removed the link to the YouTube video of/about the teenager who executed the school massacre described in the link below. In some way I’ve still been too much captured from the timeliness of this […]


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links for 2006-12-01

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Nokia Gets Design-Conscious — Again
I haven’t completed reasoning about the impact of Nokia’s shift. However even though I appreciate to read about the rising importance of Design in terms of structure & systems I still have the impression that it still acts as an emergency police if previo
(tags: Nokia design designmanagement “organizational structure” systems”)


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