Vol. 2: design-management.de

We’ve assembled the chart on “What is a Design Strategy” you see on the left hand side some weeks ago.
For some reason I did only push it via twitter so far maybe for the reason that it still needs some ‘iterations’ to reflect all the constructive feedback I’ve received in the meantime. Sure in these […]

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 […]

As some of you might know I’m very much into visualisation and the likes these days. In my role as a Professor for Design Management I’m currently doing a seminar on Business Model Visualisation (closed Ning; sorry) with Design students in collaboration with the expert in the field, fellow blogger and blog friend Alex Osterwalder.
While […]

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…

… busy, busy, busy … I’m far behind with topics I’d like to write about, struggling with “writers block” symptoms (at least for this blog) ;-) and new business opportunities which are appearing on the horizon …
Anyway while I’ve promised to share some more conference impressions from the KISD 2006 DM conference this morning I’ve stumbled […]

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 for […]

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 stuff […]

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 […]

… And this is what I really like about the de Wit & Meyer reader. They’ve identified 4 general perspectives on how to address “Strategy Tensions”. Interestingly these perspectives are not limited to strategy, but can be applied to ‘problem solving’ in general as well. According to the authors you should approach problems by: …

With reference to my posting from yesterday here’s another article from a recent BusinessWeek issue about the trend to instill “Design Thinking” into business education. …

As I understood from current blog gossip these days are the days of Web 2.0 and many folks out there are (among them Peter Merholz ) are posting about this in their blogs. …

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 […]

Recently I’ve been directed to a nice and quite personal blog maintained by Niti Bhan. She seems to have worked as Director, Graduate Recruiting at the Institute of Design, IIT and wrote for Core 77.
These days she is working as an independent consultant in the area of design, business and management: Well chosen combination […]

these days seem to be the days of “quick postings” without applying my usual approach to comment them and bring them into direct relation to design management.
last weekend I’ve started coaching another Open University MBA “Strategy” presentation. essential to any approach of strategic thinking is having the necessary tools for strategic analysis available.
today I’ve […]

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 […]