Vol. 2: design-management.de

Mark Vanderbeeken over at Experientia/Turin, Italy pointed me to an interesting article about School 2.0. Even thought the article is written in French (and I have to admit that my skills in talking /reading French have unfortunately decreased considerably over the last couple of years ;-( it attracted my attention since over the last couple […]

Lucy Kimbell works as a fellow in Design Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford with a background in interaction design and visual/live arts.
I’m a regular visitor and reader of her blog not only because it is very nicely demonstrating an attempt to create transparency on what is actually going on in an […]

Being a proud owner of the latest Nokia N95 and in the light of the recent discussion on the iPhone I was wondering today whether the same (branding) issues apply to the Leica C-LUX 2 (average price some Euro 500.-) which has been co-developed with Panasonic and resulted in the similar (even though differently adjusted) […]

“Put together a team with a great engineer, a crazy designer, a good businessperson, and a good human-factors scientist or psychologist of some kind, and put them in a room and get them to try to work together. It’s a big challenge, but they come to a point, surprisingly quickly, where they realize that what […]

“Brands that will win will be those whose consumers tell the best stories to each other rather than brands that tell the best story to their consumer.” (Sarah Fay, president of Isobar U.S)
This is a quote from an Advertising Age article I’ve just discovered. It attracted my attention from two perspectives: a) user generated content […]

Some years ago I’ve worked as a senior consultant for the “first integrated design corporation” in Germany: design.net ag (today the company is part of Peter Schmidt Group). Interestingly the company has been the springboard for several professionals who today are international experts in design management (but that’s a different story ;-)
In any case design.net […]

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 Roger […]

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 Niti Bhan announced it in her Blog this week , BusinessWeek tries to catch up with FastCompany to claim leadership in terms of being the authority for the issues: Design, Creativity, Innovation and…

So here comes some fresh stuff for the weekend: A few minutes ago BusinessWeek Online has released their latest online edition devoted to Design. >>>
While observing that BW has even named Bruce Nussbaum as Editorial Page Editor for Design Topics, it seems that this is the decade where particularly US/UK magazines like: FastCompany, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, […]

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 of […]

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 a part […]

after a longer than planned christmas season break I wish you all a happy new year 2005! as many of you I’ve assembled my personal set of goals to be achieved in 2005; updating this blog more regularly (which means at least once a week) is certainly among them. A blog posting from Oliver Thylmann a […]

some might remember US author Richard A. D’Aveni, a professor of strategic management, for his ideas about ‘Hypercompetition’. long, long ago are the days of the ‘new economy’ ;-)
in the summer issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review he wrote an article about what he calls ‘Corporate Spheres of Influence’. I find his approach quite […]

after being the main headline on the latest issue of BusinessWeek (see my posting from last week) another leading business magazine from the US, FastCompany, has chosen “design” as their front cover story. interestingly the full title is “Masters of Design”! isn’t this what we actually want to facilitate design management students to become in […]