Vol. 2: design-management.de

I trust that in these recessive times of tight budgets conference organisers have a hard time to sell their events. From my very own German perspective the fact that those events I find most inspiring & worth going to are usually taking place somewhere abroad is often frustrating :-(
Therefore I’ve been more than thrilled when […]

I recall that my first DMI conference I’ve ever attended is dating back to 1998. At that time it has been the second European conference and took place in Amsterdam.  
Ever since I’ve attended a couple of them also outside Europe and it has always been a special experience, because many people I’ve met at these […]

Anyone out there who still has doubts about the power of images and charisma? Well have a look at this amazing set of pictures from Boston.com.
This image is courtesy of AP Photo/Alex Brandon taken at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008.

One thing leads to another and as I’ve learned from my friend Fabian there is no such thing to be called true ‘randomness‘ (in particular if you compare it to ‘unpredictability‘ ;-). So while I’ve had to report sad news about Zollverein School yesterday there is good news coming from our neighbours from the Netherlands […]

I’m proud to announce that my friend, ex-student and current business partner Erik Roscam Abbing from ZilverInnovation.com has won a DME Award tonight! Detailed news will follow once more information is available! Kudos, Erik!
Addendum: In the meantime DME has released the winning entries on their website. The work and process Zilver Innovation has done and […]

Hey, DMI seems to slightly open up towards the social web! Something I’ve tried to convince them on a while ago ;-)
Therefore under the lead of Scott Lerman they’ve set up a Ning where you can socialize and get in touch with other Design Management professionals across the globe that like to hang out at […]

For the German speaking readers of this blog I’ve found a quite nice yet critical review on Heise Online of the Digital Life Design 08 Conference I’ve blogged about earlier on Monday this week. For the rest of us Jeff Jarvis has posted his impressions and musings on his blog as well.

Today is day one of a phenomenon which stock market analysts call a ‘crash’! - However it’s also the time of the year where the caravan of business leaders are heading for the World Economic Forum in Davos, CH (23-27 January, 2008) after making a stop at DLD08 in Munich last weekend (smart choice by […]

While I unfortunately do not have the time* to report and digest in detail about the recent DME Award ceremony folks over at the Designzentrum NRW posted some news about the event (well that’s what they are good at ;-)

On top of that you will also find some material (PDF) on their website which explains […]

I’m actually heading for the Design Management Europe Award (DME Award) later this afternoon. Funnily enough I haven’t heard about this event until recently ;-) After all it has taken a visit to my colleague’s blog “Brand Driven Innovation” edited by Erik Roscam Abbing from Rotterdam who posted about an earlier event in Eindhoven which […]

One of my blog pals from Canada, Jess McMullin contacted me last week. I gladly share the information that Jess as well as Victor Lombardi will speak at the Information Architecture conference to be held at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart, Germany on November 9.–10., 2007.
Even though most of the conference site is documented […]

Well, well I’m late with this one, but there are still 14 days to go with this job offer I’ve received via my design management network. Some days ago I got in touch with Darragh Murphy from the University of Wales. He’s been so kind to provide some background information about the person they are […]

I know I’m late with this announcement, but better late than never ;-) In any case as an informed blog reader I’m sure that you’ve stumbled across the following information somewhere else in our small niche of blogs on Business & Design.
A couple of weeks ago Allan Chochinov, Editor-in-Chief, Core77 contacted me in order to place […]

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 […]

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 […]