Vol. 2: design-management.de

Well, after a series of del.icio.us postings with reduced analysis I feel tempted to write a ‘normal’ posting again ;-) My original approach to go back to normal blogging has been to chronologically p…

I’ve been contacted by one of Germany’s biggest business magazines last week. As they are planning to publish a series of articles on Design, Creativity and Business Innovation they’ve asked me to inspire them with some according names and schools. While I clearly have my own internal list (but do not want to bias your [...]

Did I really forget to mention reboot8.0 happening yesterday and today in Copenhagen? Shame on me! Kudos to Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (with whom I’ve had lots of fun at last fall’s WorldBlu forum in Washington D.C.) for creatively organizing such a great event where 400 people from across the globe meet for two days at a [...]

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 [...]

(Sidenote: This is an edited posting which I’ve originally written for the Zollverein School of management and design) As some of you know, I’m not a trained designer. My educational background is rooted in Business Administration. However working in the domain of design management for many years now has taught me a lot of things [...]

Some good news comes from California about an upcoming event/initiative on the intersection of Business and Design called: Overlap. From simply browsing the list of organizers it seems that again the forefront of business and design thinkers/bloggers is based in the US and California in particular (wish I could be there ;-). Just to name [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Via the mysterious MITD I’ve stumbled upon “Management Focus – the free newsletter from ManagementFirst” and in their latest issue I’ve found the following quote by Bill Gates: “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation [...]

Today Bruce Nussbaum shares some impressive insights and figures on his Innovation & Design blog at BusinessWeek. In his latest posting Bruce states by referring to Larry Keely (co-founder and president of the Doblin Group in Chicago) that: “… innovation is beginning to give up its secrets.” He (Keely) said that today, companies can increase their [...]

Please read my call for open collaboration on “DesignThinkingInstitute.com”. The basic idea is to provide free access to the blog interface which enables you to write and share your own postings on ‘Design Thinking’ on the Institute’s blog. So far my intention is to keep the blog open at least for the stage of “Collecting” [...]

Regular visitors of my blog might have noticed that I’ve participated in a conference about organizational democracy two weeks ago. Beside the fact that I still owe you some impressions from the forum…

Niti Bhan and Steve Portigal are not only BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum’s favourite bloggers, but also mine ;-) The two crafted a highly recommended article on Core77 about issues to consider before h…

I’ve just posted some information about the WorldBlu forum in Washington, DC where I’ve been invited as a speaker. You will find the link to my presentation and a link to the conference resources site (Blogs, Podcasts, etc.) at www.designthinkinginstitute.com as well. Stay tuned!

Some weeks ago I’ve received an email from Traci Fenton, Founder & CEO of WorldBlu, Inc./Washington, DC. As Traci puts it on their website: “WorldBlu™ is a leadership and business design studio elevating the human spirit and inspiring freedom through organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership.” It turned out that Mike Wagner has recommended my blog [...]