Vol. 2: design-management.de

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to work at the intersection of Managers and Designers than you should watch this great video clip! … after all I was wondering the other day which Muppet character would best characterise a Design Manager!? Any ideas?

found via Dan Roam

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 […]

Mark Vanderbeeken over at Experientia/Turin, Italy pointed me to an interesting article about School 2.0. Even thought the article is written in French (and I have to admit that my skills in talking /reading French have unfortunately decreased considerably over the last couple of years ;-( it attracted my attention since over the last couple […]

Lucy Kimbell works as a fellow in Design Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford with a background in interaction design and visual/live arts.
I’m a regular visitor and reader of her blog not only because it is very nicely demonstrating an attempt to create transparency on what is actually going on in an […]

“Put together a team with a great engineer, a crazy designer, a good businessperson, and a good human-factors scientist or psychologist of some kind, and put them in a room and get them to try to work together. It’s a big challenge, but they come to a point, surprisingly quickly, where they realize that what […]

Do you want to become a “Manager of Design” or a “Designer of Management”? In the context of my earlier posting on “What is Design Management?” I’ve found the following job advertisement by Pricejamieson recently:

“Recruitment Consultant - Design Management:Do you have a passion for brands and a knowledge of design management? Would you like to […]

Gee, its seems as if I’ve been caught by the flu; at least it feels like it ;-(
Therefore today only a short pointer to a quite new Wikipedia entry about design management. It came to my first time attention some weeks ago while I’ve studied my server log files and noticed several referrers from […]

In the light of the recent discussion we’ve had at Niti Bhan’s blog about the impact of strategy on design thinking I’d thought that it might be useful to re-post a blog posting I’ve written for the brand new Zollverein School of management and design blog (which I also co-edit for the next couple of […]

Some of you might have heard already that I’m currently helping the Zollverein School of management and design to set up their new blog and get it running. The Zollverein School Blog hasn’t been promoted publicly so far and we’ve decided not to apply the classical PR announcement approach to it. Instead we rather want […]

You might have followed the discussion about Sabine Junginger’s last posting “Design as Process or Inquiry”. In the course of her doctoral thesis Sabine seems to have spent some reasonable resources on thinking about design management.
Unfortunately I did not find the time yet to engage in a more in depth discussion on her view on […]

In light of the interest in strategy, I have pushed back a story that talks about design research versus scientific research. Though it fits beautifully with our ongoing conversation, I wanted to highlight a few other points first.
John Kotter distinguishes between “management” and “leadership.” For him, “management” is to keep a system running as […]

It is quite an honor to be invited as a guest blogger on this site. I have followed Ralf’s blog for a while now and we have discovered that some of the issues I am looking at in my work very much relate to the concerns and interests of the participants of Vol. 2: design-management.de.
Before […]

There are many ongoing discussions about Innovation these days both in traditional media like magazines as well as on the web (representing new media). …

While last week has been a very active blog week this week my time budget is quite limited.

Anyway, from the various comments being added to the design definitions posting I’ve concluded that this is an issue the design management community is still interested in.

Let’s see if a similar discussion arises from

As you might have noticed there is a lively discussion going on regarding my posting “Defining Design (Management) | designfeast.com” from last tuesday.

The initiator of this discussion is Jörg Walters a german fellow now living and doing business in Amsterdam/NL. You can visit him on the web at: www.design-manager.nl and browse for more information about his company.