Vol. 2: design-management.de

Last week I’ve received an email from a colleague of my design management network; maybe some of my readers got this as well ;-) Anyway, the email pointed to an online survey ‘designed’ and conducted by some students from an US Eastern Coast design management program about the current and future social/business impact of “bottled [...]

For those of you who are interested in starting an MBA in the near future you might want to consider having a closer look at the Open University Business School (OUBS) where I’m working as an “Associate Lecturer” for the “Strategy Module” for more than three years now. For the German readers of this blog you [...]

More and more I discover the range of visualization tools and power of visualization in general in business contexts these days (even though this is not a too groundbreaking insight ;-). Let it be for example for my current MBA class at the Open University or as a moderator at a recent design manager retreat (Raymond) on [...]

Those of you who know me a little bit closer know that a part of my annual revenues come from lecturing activities in the areas of design management and post-graduate MBA (namely Strategy) education. Ever since I’ve finished my MBA eleven years ago a lot has changed in the landscape of (under) graduate and post graduate [...]

I think nobody is surprised to hear that understanding, talking and (sometimes) writing in English belongs to the basic skills of (design) managers these days. And based on my own experiences I can confirm that no native speaker expects you to talk or write almost perfect. Interestingly in the course of my recent efforts to [...]

Yes, I’m alive and on the road quite often these days … in any case from my latest postings you will have noticed that it’s conference season ;-) Lot’s of interesting stuff going on in Europe and the US these days … While talking about design and business conferences last weekend I’ve participated in the 3rd [...]

Victor Lombardi from Noise Between Stations reports about it and Mark Vanderbeeken on Putting People First (PPF) as well. So what else is there to say that Rotman School of Management has dedicated the spring issue (PDF, ~ 5.5 MB) of their magazine to “The Creative Age”. While I’ve just browsed this issue so far, beside [...]

Yes, I admit that I love to browse the logfiles of this blog since I’m always curious about the broad range of nationalities who visit Vol. 2: design-management.de. Each month I get a steady stream of visitors from Switzerland (ranked among the Top 10). Somehow unnoticed from the mainstream design, management and business education the [...]

Small and smart conferences seem to become an accepted alternative to the big gatherings these days. Some years ago in late 2003 as well as in 2002 I’ve co-organized the first two Design Management forums at the Köln International School of Design (KISD) chaired by Design Management Professor Brigitte Wolf. While these two conferences had [...]

After suffering far longer than anticipated from the flu for almost two weeks I’m happy to be back again :-) - On the other hand not reading my bloglines feed collection for almost a week has been inspiring as well since there are so many well written postings to be explored now. Beside browsing loads of new [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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

See my latest postings on:

- Design Research Methodologies : Workshop with Keiichi Sato from the Institute of Design , Chicago
- References to working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Tom Peters on…