Archive for February, 2008



Design (Management) in a box

Published on February 21, 2008

I get regularly asked by people from outside the design (management) community what can design actually do for them and their business. My spontaneous answer for sure is: A lot! - However the tricky part begins right after when it comes to explaining why and how ;-)
Therefore as part of my design management lecturing activities […]


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links for 2008-02-20

Published on February 20, 2008

Radical Design, Radical Results — HBS Working Knowledge
It’s fascinating to see the self-refering attitude of the Italians in general and Verganti in particular. On the other hand he did ‘publish into action’ what I’ve found as ‘too simple textbook application’. So sometimes it just takes a simple ‘go for it’!
(tags: design hbs innovation strategy furniture […]


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Re-Focus: Disruptive Innovation

Published on February 4, 2008

A recent email conversation has brought my attention back to a topic I’ve lectured about almost 10 years ago in my first job as an assistant professor: “Disruptive Innovation“.
In between and in the early days of Design Management education (somewhere in 1998 with the MBA Design Management at Westminster University/UK) I’ve developed some seminars about […]


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