Vol. 2: design-management.de

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.

I somehow have a hard time recently to catch up with all the stuff that happens around me on and off-line.
Beside the reasonable business travelling I’ve done recently to NL, CH, then back to NL and CH next month again (after all not too many complaints here since I also always meet good friends and […]

As the summer vacation period is starting soon I’d thought I celebrate and share the 5th anniversary of this blog a little bit earlier than scheduled with you. If you have a closer look at the ‘Full Archive’ section of this blog you will notice that e very first posting is dated 29. July 2003! […]

A great piece perfectly describing my very own journeys between academia and practice and written in a well articulated format has been published now by frog design consultant Jon Kolko over at Core77. Well, this has been exactly the kind of piece I would have wanted to be written by myself for a while … […]

GK Patter from NextD contacted me recently to add my 2 cents to the discussion which has been brought up by a speech of Bruce Nussbaum at Parsons recently. I didn’t do so mainly because I’m not a trained designer and Nussbaum has been mainly attacking design/designer in his piece; accordingly I didn’t feel directly […]

[Note: This posting is a revised version of my posting from November 30st. While I did not change the body text I’ve removed the link to the YouTube video of/about the teenager who executed the school massacre described in the link below. In some way I’ve still been too much captured from the timeliness of this […]

As some of you might know I’ve entered the Design Management sphere via the management side as I’m not a trained designer. Therefore I highly appreciated the basic insight (provided via my personal gurus) that beside ‘Nature’ itself everything we human beings transform from this is aboriginal state is to be considered as ‘Design or designed’ […]

Niti Bhan’s posting from today triggered me to raise my voice again here on this blog. In a somehow coquettish manner she is describing her little competition with another Design & Business Blogger called ‘Niblettes’ about who has the lowest amount of subscribers. In a not less than coquettish fashion she’s explaining that

“The advantage of not […]

In early June I’ve blogged about “reboot8.0” a conference on “the intersection of digital technology and change” which I’d have loved to attend. Unfortunately I couldn’t join this year, but yesterday Ton Zijlstra and I celebrated an informative “reboot de-brief” here in Münster at my favorite Bagel Cafe.
While you can read the short anecdote about […]

… I finally gave up ignoring that it’s soccer world cup time here in Germany. I even start to like it … While it has been asked here and there recently: “What is “Design’s” real contribution?” I’ve stumbled across this video below today:

Even though it’s the most intangible variable which can hardly be measured I must […]

Via the mysterious MITD I’ve stumbled upon “Management Focus – the free newsletter from ManagementFirst” and in their latest issue I’ve found the following quote by Bill Gates:
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied […]

It seems that the closer we come to Christmas posting frequency goes down not only at Vol.2: design-management.de. Therefore I’ve decided to take a short, intended “hiatus” and concentrate on some urgent work to be completed before Christmas as well as on recharging my batteries ;-) Consequently expect new, fresh postings in January 2006. However I still […]

A lot has been written about the interplay of Innovation and Design these days. While I find the discussion spirited I also feel annoyed about the self-centered tone tone and direction. I think I will post about it at a later stage. In the meantime you might want to start the intellectual getaway here at […]

In Niti Bhan’s recent posting ‘Fear of blogging’ she’s describing the blogoshere as follows:

“As with any large high school :) there are cliques and groups and popular kids and football players and cheerleaders and dorks and nerds.”
Those of you who hang out with the ‘cliques’ (and I do it myself from time to time as […]

It’s amazing how many great blogs are edited these days and I’ve reported earlier that it seems almost impossible to trace them all. Fortunately free web-based tools like Bloglines monitor and collect RSS-Feeds for you and alert you (optionally) each time a new blog posting has been written in the blogosphere.
If you track some 40+ […]