Vol. 2: design-management.de

Even though we’ve never met in person I seem to like Lucy Kimbell over at the “Design leads us where exactly” blog. On Monday this on week Lucy posted a nice piece on her perception of the lack of intersections at an upcoming conference called “Intersections 07” to be held in October this year: “Similarly, [...]

As an addendum to my recent posting on the “Overlap7 conference” may I point you to the very informative comments left by Steve Portigal (co-organizer of Overlap06) and Michael Anton Dila (Key organizer of Overlap07). Thanks, folks! I find it highly interesting (relevant) to see how social interactions and iterative learning shape the creation of [...]

On Monday I’ve written about the recent Overlap07 (un)conference organized by Victor Lombardi et al. in Toronto last week. Moving to Toronto this year has clearly been a smart idea since some lead thinkers (from the business side) in the field of “Design Thinking” are located in the neighbourhood say Heather Frazer Fraser, Jeanne Liedtka (edited: [...]

I’m definitively the last one to join the choir that “Business is Evil” and that the creativity tools for the future should rest in the hands of ‘Design’ only. On the contrary I’m a firm believer that if Design and Designers want to join and remain at the tables where the discussion about money going to be spent [...]

GK Patter from NextD contacted me recently to add my 2 cents to the discussion which has been brought up by a speech of Bruce Nussbaum at Parsons recently. I didn’t do so mainly because I’m not a trained designer and Nussbaum has been mainly attacking design/designer in his piece; accordingly I didn’t feel directly [...]

While my own posting frequency remains low due to various business projects I’m more than happy that some friends of my design management network take over some ‘responsibilities’. Earlier this month I’ve written a posting about a former student of mine Roderique Duell (Operations Manager, Marketing & Industrial Design) now working for Johnson Controls Europe. [...]

In case you should be interested in what’s going on at the World Economic Forum in Davos you might want to study this report assembled by BusinessWeek. Most of the articles are gathered around the topics of “Climate Change”, “Green Products” as well as “Strategies for Socially & Environmental Sustainability”. I think these all are [...]

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 [...]

As some of you might know I’ve entered the Design Management sphere via the management side as I’m not a trained designer. Therefore I highly appreciated the basic insight (provided via my personal gurus) that beside ‘Nature’ itself everything we human beings transform from this is aboriginal state is to be considered as ‘Design or designed’ [...]

As you might have noticed the Design Management Institute (DMI) has a new President since the beginning of 2006. This month Tom Lockwood who introduced himself in person to the design management community at the recent European DMI Conference in Amsterdam has been interviewed by Brigitte Borja de Mozota (DMI Lifetime Fellow) on his new role [...]

March seems to be a busy month this year as well … however we see us at the DMI Conference in Amsterdam, right? In the meantime via Bruce Nussbaum I’ve been directed to this nice parody on (by!) Microsoft and packaging design called “Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging”. While watching the highly entertaining video it instantly reminded me [...]

In the light of my previous posting thanks go to Jess McMullin for pointing to a study by Elke den Ouden of the Technical University of Eindhoven. Jess links to a posting by Anders Bylund on ars technica from which I quote here: “Her (Elke Den Ouden) research shows that half of all electronics returned to stores [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]