As some of you might know I’m very much into visualisation and the likes these days. In my role as a Professor for Design Management I’m currently doing a seminar on Business Model Visualisation (closed Ning; sorry) with Design students in collaboration with the expert in the field, fellow blogger and blog friend Alex Osterwalder.
While working with my students not only on the ’surface’ (that (unfortunately) is still very often connected with Design), but rather on the connection between form and content I’ve started thinking about how to make my key domain ‘Strategic Management‘ more compelling and appealing to a larger audience beyond MBAs ;-) Part of this effort is a new venture I’ve named: designingstrategy.biz (more on this next near and a rough outline when you click the link). However if you’re interested in early experimentation you might want to contact me and we’ll figure out a workshop on ‘Designing Strategy‘ that focuses on me facilitating and inspiring and you developing business strategies that emerge from your very own ‘creativity’. Is that a deal?
In any case ever since I’ve started to conceptualise at the intersection of business concepts/metaphors and design methods my attention usually gets (positively) distracted by cool cases and examples. So today I’ve came across this Wall Street Journal article that is describing Nicholas Felton’s story about him sharing his life in the form of an annual report! While some people are clearly wondering ‘Gee, this man has too much time’ I find his case a perfect illustration of how to do an ‘analog’ portfolio next to all these Social/Business Networking platforms.
Any other cases you dear readers like to recommend and that are illustrating the smart disruption of traditional business metaphors?
