Vol. 2: design-management.de

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 [...]

While I’ve returned from the DMI conference last Friday night, I’ve again had to leave to Frankfurt for conducting my last Open University MBA Strategy workshop for this semester on Saturday morning early. Consequently I’ve been quite tired and lazy on Sunday and I’ve had to catch up with my email yesterday … So, now’s [...]

This news is one for Niti: The German business magazine “Handelsblatt.com” reports that DaimlerChrysler has plans to sell their sister company “Smart” to Europe’s biggest manufacturer of motor-scooters, the Italian “Piaggio”! Still, both companies are heavily denying any plans to do so … The interesting sidenote is that Piaggio is said to have plans to relocate [...]

The new year is just two weeks old and I see a series of exciting conferences & events in the area of design, business and innovation to be held soon. One of the most active folks at the intersection of business & design can be found at Core77 in partnership with BusinessWeek. On BusinessWeek’s side [...]

If you’re a regular reader of the blogosphere you certainly have read that Peter Drucker, the most influential management writer of the modern era (Financial Times) born in Vienna, Austria in 1909 died last Friday …

I almost forgot to mention that CORE77 listed my blog (among others, but right in front of Seth Godin’s one! ;-) in their recently released “ Design Directory ”. The Directory seems to be a joint proj…

Beside being visited by the Pope this week ;-) Germany is gaining international attention in the business press as well. For us guys here in Germany this is at least some good news …

As it seems the discussion about “China and its implications on the design industry ” is a topic of increasing interest. While browsing some interesting sites and blogs recently addrerssing this topic…

I will comment later on this exciting info from the campus news section of the ISEAD (one of europe’s leading business schools) website: “INSEAD and Art Center, a design college based in Pasadena, California, and one of the world’s leading schools for art and design, have entered into an original partnership. As part of the [...]

well, I’m back again after having coached another Open University Business Schools (OUBS) class with their “Strategy (B820) module. for more information click here >>> in any case last week the “london design-news-hub” David Griffiths informed me about “The Research Training Initiative (RTI)”. RTI is a project based at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, [...]

as you certainly know the Design Management Institute (DMI) in Boston is the leading resource and international authority on design management. beside organising several conferences throughout the year, DMI is also publishing two leading publications devoted to articles and case studies exploring how design – in products, communication, and environments – is an essential resource [...]

wow, this has been coincidence! while I’ve been on my way back home from a visit to BRAUN design last friday I’ve heard about the mega deal between Procter&Gamble and Gillette. to be more precise: P&G buying Gillette for approx. euro 44 billion!!! with a portfolio of more than 20 brands (21 from P&G plus [...]

even though a brandname like “Starbucks” might be strong and established in all major industrialised countries this does not automatically guarantee success. today’s “Business Week online” is reporting about France’s different coffee-drinking culture and Starbucks’ German partner KarstadtQuelle bailing out as the two major challenges for its aggressive expansion plan on the european continent. while [...]

this note is somehow off-topic: next week the ‘Blog Business Summit 2005′ takes place in Seattle/WA in the U.S. I’d wish I could have participated, but other important appointments keep me busy ;-) as Steve Broback (no, you don’t have to know this name) writes in his comment on Tom Peters joining the conference: there [...]

as promised here you’ll find the detailed job description for the two positions as a junior consultant at PARK Hamburg (D) and PARK Noordeloos (NL). just klick the following link or right-klick the link and choose “save as …” in order to save the PDF (~45 kb) to your harddisc. here you go >>>