Archive for March, 2007



links for 2007-03-31

Published on March 31, 2007

Top 10 Apple products which flopped - Newlaunches.com
Yes, even the best ones among us fail from time to time … So here are Apple’s flops (found via http://richardsona.squarespace.com)
(tags: Apple_Computer apple product failures)


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links for 2007-03-27

Published on March 30, 2007

ManyWorlds.com - The Knowledge Network for Thought Leaders on Business Strategy, Innovation and Futures.
More than ever Design Management is also about mastering the art of communication across disciplines. This HBS article reveals a number of ways that this complicated and often-volatile process might go a lot better

(tags: HBS negotiation negotiating skills communication designmanagement)

BrandChannel: Why social […]


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Measuring Design Performance: Part II

Published on March 22, 2007

While my own posting frequency remains low due to various business projects I’m more than happy that some friends of my design management network take over some ‘responsibilities’.
Earlier this month I’ve written a posting about a former student of mine Roderique Duell (Operations Manager, Marketing & Industrial Design) now working for Johnson Controls Europe. Roderique […]


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Note from the IT Desk

Published on March 14, 2007

Thanks to Mike Wagner from OwnYourBrand.com I’ve been pointed to an error in my WordPress SpamKarma installation on this blog. This might have caused that any recent comment some of you might have left here got eaten/refused by SpamKarma.
Today I’ve re-organised the SQL-Database behind this blog and everything should work fine again! Accordingly if you’d like […]


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Early Signs For Getting Older: Design Management Education

Published on March 13, 2007

As some of you know I’m not solely working as a self-employed business consultant (Design Management & Social Innovation), but also as an academic/teacher for international graduate and post-graduate Design Management programs. And to be honest I really love this job even though the (necessary) mental switch between under-graduate/graduate and post-graduate students is quite remarkable.
However […]


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links for 2007-03-06

Published on March 6, 2007

Monocle: Tyler Brûlé’s done it again, and well …
For those design conscious folks among us who did not recognize yet ‘Monocle’ yet “Lunch over IP” has written a review about this new magazine
(tags: TylerBrule magazine wallpaper magazine-design)


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