Archive for October, 2008



DME Survey: Business Success by Design Management

Published on October 31, 2008

One thing leads to another and as I’ve learned from my friend Fabian there is no such thing to be called true ‘randomness‘ (in particular if you compare it to ‘unpredictability‘ ;-). So while I’ve had to report sad news about Zollverein School yesterday there is good news coming from our neighbours from the Netherlands […]


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Zollverein School of Management and Design is Dead - Period!

Published on October 30, 2008

While I can’t provide an online link yet I can confirm that the design magazine form reports in their latest edition that the Zollverein School of Management and Design is dead. I could comment a lot on this and some of the arguments that are provided these days by officials are more than questionable … […]


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And the DME Award 2008 goes to … ZilverInnovation.com

Published on October 13, 2008

I’m proud to announce that my friend, ex-student and current business partner Erik Roscam Abbing from ZilverInnovation.com has won a DME Award tonight! Detailed news will follow once more information is available! Kudos, Erik!
Addendum: In the meantime DME has released the winning entries on their website. The work and process Zilver Innovation has done and […]


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Design Thinking and the likes

Published on October 1, 2008

I somehow have a hard time recently to catch up with all the stuff that happens around me on and off-line.
Beside the reasonable business travelling I’ve done recently to NL, CH, then back to NL and CH next month again (after all not too many complaints here since I also always meet good friends and […]


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