Archive for April, 2007



Design Management is Information Management (among others …)

Published on April 25, 2007

Design Management also means Information Management! Well, you’re right this might not be too new for you ;-)
However while conducting several workshops over the last couple of months on the use of Web 2.0 tools and Blogs in particular I’ve observed that on one hand many people are highly interested in getting access to […]


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‘Designers Suck’: Some Final Words

Published on April 12, 2007

In the light of my recent posting “Hype: New Kids On The Blog” today I’ve checked Adam Richardson’s Blog “richardsona” (Which I highly recommend by the way). 
Adam works as a Strategy Director for ‘frog design’ and I must admit that he’s exactly written the kind of response which more or less exactly expresses my opinion […]


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links for 2007-04-11

Published on April 11, 2007

MIT Sloan Management Review: The New Principles of a Swarm Business
Like a swarm of bees working together to build and sustain a hive, groups of humans swarming together according to a few simple rules can release enormous creativity and produce remarkable innovations. The individuals in these groups tend to be motivated


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This Is Not Viral: The Creative Side Of Business

Published on April 10, 2007

I’m definitively the last one to join the choir that “Business is Evil” and that the creativity tools for the future should rest in the hands of ‘Design’ only.
On the contrary I’m a firm believer that if Design and Designers want to join and remain at the tables where the discussion about money going to be spent […]


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Hype: New Kids On The Blog

Published on April 7, 2007

GK Patter from NextD contacted me recently to add my 2 cents to the discussion which has been brought up by a speech of Bruce Nussbaum at Parsons recently. I didn’t do so mainly because I’m not a trained designer and Nussbaum has been mainly attacking design/designer in his piece; accordingly I didn’t feel directly […]


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