Vol. 2: design-management.de

No big deals with formalities. The new year is already 12 days old and I hope that it will be a good and still prosperous one given the external environment we are all affected by in one or the other fashion these days!
On a sidenote I’d like to point those of you who are interested […]

A recent email conversation has brought my attention back to a topic I’ve lectured about almost 10 years ago in my first job as an assistant professor: “Disruptive Innovation“.
In between and in the early days of Design Management education (somewhere in 1998 with the MBA Design Management at Westminster University/UK) I’ve developed some seminars about […]

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 […]

As mentioned in my last posting I’m involved in feeding the Zollverein SummerSchool Blog this week. Therefore I’ll just redirect you to my actual postings on: blog.zollverein-school.de
For the last two days I’ve been reporting about Bettina von Stamm’s workshop addressing Innovation & Creativity. I’ve tried to cover the most relevant topics of her workshop. Among […]

Wow, I find more useful stuff to post about than I can manage at the moment! Today I’ve received a note from an Open University Business School colleague, Jim Yates from Fulcrum Management, about “Disruptive Innovation” and “Creative Destruction”.
If you know Harvard’s B-School Professor “Clayton Christensen” (see my book recommendation on sidebar of this […]

I don’t want to let this month pass by without a second posting … did I say I’d want to do “one posting a week minimum” at the beginning of the year? well, I do take care of providing you with design management news more often next month; promised ;-)
today I’ve recalled an article I’ve […]

where if not in the US should a gadget like TV-B-Gone have been developed?
an article on wired.com from Oct., 19th about the small gadget which is capable of switching-off a range of some 1.000 TV models instantly boosted the visitor (and sales!) numbers on Mitch Altman’s (President, CEO Cornfield Electronics, Inc.) website.
Altman who has […]