Vol. 2: design-management.de

While my last posting on “Design (Management) Definitions” evolved from heuristic web browsing it seems to have attracted two readers: Jörg Walters (Amsterdam/NL) and Mark Fenwick from ‘nesta’ (London/UK) to post their highly interesting comments. While Jörg states that Designers and Design Managers shouldn’t claim to have answers to every problem, Mark provides a good [...]

Summer is back again here in Germany :-) So for today only a quick post about a well assembled list of design definitions I’ve discovered on designfeast.com recently. Beside delivering some current stereotypes on design the list provides an array of interesting definitions on design related to different contexts: – On Design Advice – On [...]

Recently I’ve been directed to a nice and quite personal blog maintained by Niti Bhan. She seems to have worked as Director, Graduate Recruiting at the Institute of Design, IIT and wrote for Core 77. These days she is working as an independent consultant in the area of design, business and management: Well chosen combination [...]

as you certainly know the Design Management Institute (DMI) in Boston is the leading resource and international authority on design management. beside organising several conferences throughout the year, DMI is also publishing two leading publications devoted to articles and case studies exploring how design – in products, communication, and environments – is an essential resource [...]

last week I’ve also had the chance to discuss the purpose and possible benefits and pitfalls of corporate weblogs with the people at BRAUN design and their head of design Peter Schneider in particular. common theory suggests that setting up weblogs is quite easy. however the real hazzle starts when corporate policy comes to the [...]

here is a posting for german readers interested in service design. while the design of products is one of the main issues of design management, service design is often excluded from the topic. meanwhile it’s six years ago since I conducted an extensive research project in digital service design (management) in the US myself. ever [...]

it’s interesting to note how fragmented the design world still is! – every two months or so you read or hear about different ‘design initiatives’. mostly these initiatives are sponsored by governments (if national) or the EU (if international / cross-europe) a further characteristic is that they seem to disappear with same continuity without being [...]

what comes to your mind first if you hear the term “design management”? — certainly notions like: value creation, management of design resources, strategic use of design, design the management process, etc … immediately pop up. one central insight from this spontaneous brainstorming is that design management is rather a conceptual construct than a specific [...]