Vol. 2: design-management.de

I trust that in these recessive times of tight budgets conference organisers have a hard time to sell their events. From my very own German perspective the fact that those events I find most inspiring & worth going to are usually taking place somewhere abroad is often frustrating :-(
Therefore I’ve been more than thrilled when […]

While I’m still trying to catch up with my email stuff that I’ve postponed last week due to my wild DMI conference twittering (@iterations on twitter) some colleagues of mine with Erik Roscam Abbing (@roscamabbing on twitter) at the lead have posted their photos and shared their impressions.
As always Erik has followed a really nice […]

I recall that my first DMI conference I’ve ever attended is dating back to 1998. At that time it has been the second European conference and took place in Amsterdam.  
Ever since I’ve attended a couple of them also outside Europe and it has always been a special experience, because many people I’ve met at these […]

No big deals with formalities. The new year is already 12 days old and I hope that it will be a good and still prosperous one given the external environment we are all affected by in one or the other fashion these days!
On a sidenote I’d like to point those of you who are interested […]

Florian Weiss (no linking possible due to 100% flash on their end :-( over from our friends at PARK just dropped me a note sharing some closer information about the upcoming Design Management forum to be held (again) in Cologne in November this year. Chances are that you might meet me there physically as well […]

Hey, DMI seems to slightly open up towards the social web! Something I’ve tried to convince them on a while ago ;-)
Therefore under the lead of Scott Lerman they’ve set up a Ning where you can socialize and get in touch with other Design Management professionals across the globe that like to hang out at […]

I should share some snippets from last Friday when I’ve joined several of my peers in The Hague, NL. However please allow for some digesting of my impressions and thoughts! I will write a follow up for sure ;-)
After all what we’ve touched in our panel discussion as well as during the ‘after show’ talks […]

From regular checking the logfiles of this blog I know that quite a few visitors come from The Netherlands.
So, as some sort of semi-shameless self promotion your might want to notice that I will be moderating a panel with Design Management experts from Europe at INHOLLAND University, The Hague, NL tomorrow.
The panel discussion is embedded […]

For those of you (like myself) who have not been able to attend the latest European Design Management Institute’s conference I thought it might be interesting to read some stuff that other attendees have summarised or commented.
First place to visit is Erik’s blog on Brand Driven Innovation. Erik and I are currently working on a […]

This is just a short posting as one assignment follows the next one these days. I hope I’ll find the time to synthesise all what’s happening these days and squeeze some valuable (design management related) insights out of it for this blog; promised ;-)
However in the meantime I’d like to point you to the blog […]

In the light of my latest delicious bookmark posting today Core77 attracted my attention by pointing to a current online article in International Herald Tribune. Among others it sheds some closer light on Paola Antonelli’s view on design’s relationship with science and technology.
At the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, CH “… Alice Rawsthorn, […]

For the German speaking readers of this blog I’ve found a quite nice yet critical review on Heise Online of the Digital Life Design 08 Conference I’ve blogged about earlier on Monday this week. For the rest of us Jeff Jarvis has posted his impressions and musings on his blog as well.

Today is day one of a phenomenon which stock market analysts call a ‘crash’! - However it’s also the time of the year where the caravan of business leaders are heading for the World Economic Forum in Davos, CH (23-27 January, 2008) after making a stop at DLD08 in Munich last weekend (smart choice by […]

Here’s a blog posting by Roger van Oech over which I’ve recently stumbled across. I let it sort of uncommented from my side for now as I might be currently biased given my previous posting about the DME Award ;-).
I would however be interested in your opinions or experiences and in particular for your evaluations […]

While I unfortunately do not have the time* to report and digest in detail about the recent DME Award ceremony folks over at the Designzentrum NRW posted some news about the event (well that’s what they are good at ;-)

On top of that you will also find some material (PDF) on their website which explains […]