Vol. 2: design-management.de

People and their cars now and then This is for sure somehow off-topic, but nevertheless I’d thought that the range of pictures tell a rich story both on great, timeless automotive design as well as on the (mostly) men driving them. My personal favourite definitively is the Alfa Romeo. (tags: automotive creativity history gallery photos [...]

Twitter interviews on ReadWriteWeb. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos My colleague Edwin already pointed me to this article about participation inequalities and relative time spent by people on various social media sites and services. This one here is another reference. (tags: participation socialmedia social web 2.0 twitter application) Does Your Company Need [...]

Pumas, Planets and Pens: How Cues in the Environment Influence Consumer Choice While I haven’t read the whole story yet I think the insights indicate at least that also in marketing forces are shifting from problems as puzzles to problems as paradoxes (tags: marketing conext research consumer_behaviour behaviour consumerbehaviour) NussbaumOnDesign Innovation at General Motors: Is [...]

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 [...]

oobject » items to build an (home) apple store If you’ve fallen in love with Apple as it happened to me with my MacBook Pro recently you might be interested in the the range of suppliers of the furniture and decoration assetts in the original Apple store. Needless to mention that several German compan (tags: [...]

Hugh Dubberly: Toward a Model of Innovation Interesting Description of the conceptual and visual development process of a model on the nature of innovation. From my perspective visualisation skills for managers (and designers) will become more and more important in the future. (tags: design innovation model Dubberly process)

Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies A concise and at some points quite surprising summary of key findings from Eye-Tracking studies. Especially typo focused readers amongst you will find some interesting insights e.g. “Text attracts attention before graphics”. (tags: usability webdesign eyetracking design research tips)

BusinessWeek: How Britain Jumpstarts Design The UK Design Council heads up a network of regional programs that help harness the creative energy of small businesses as an engine for national growth. I wonder how this would work out here in Germany and would have a major stake in this ;-) (tags: designmanagement Design_Council small_business SME) [...]

Rebuilding Lego, Brick by Brick Great design also needs comprehensive business thinking as the example of LEGO demonstrates. Good case study on what can go wrong even though you have a great product. (tags: strategy+business article Lego supply chain transformation)

Design meet Business: “Business, this is… Design” Good and interesting points he makes, but I fear the way he presents it will not impress business too much: ” … Any class on drawing, dance, poetry …” Design as self-discovery; I’m not sure that this will increase design’s reputation! (tags: designthinking designmanagement FastCompany creativity designmeetsbusiness) Addendum: [...]

Working Together…When Apart, Lynda Gratton Great article about virtual team collaboration with a 10 golden rules list. Helps me to address the needs of some of my current clients better. Found via: ThinkFold > http://www.thinkfold.com (tags: virtual teams online learning collaboration productivity)

Is There a Doctor of Design in the House? Interview with Meredith Davis Good article on the state of the US design education including a Ph.D. in design. In contrast to the Ph.D. in Design discussion here in Germany I find Davis’ view far less uptight. Not to forget Jess’ great model on the continuum [...]

Esther Dyson: Notes for a Talk (Facebook) Short, but concise posting which supports my thesis that (among others) the business model of Second Life is not sustainable and the hype around it is a fad. (tags: media disruption web2.0 Business_models)

The Secret of Apple Design The inside (sort of) story of why Apple’s industrial-design machine has been so successful. By Daniel turner (tags: apple MIT technology creativity design experience ipod innovation) BMW uses lifestyle products as a strategic differentiating factor Companies can benefit from leveraging their brands. But the road to successfully doing this is [...]

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