Vol. 2: design-management.de

Regular visitors of my blog might have noticed that I’ve participated in a conference about organizational democracy two weeks ago. Beside the fact that I still owe you some impressions from the forum…

It seems that the end of the summer is also a time to contemplate. Foliage with its fascinating and colourful “designs” visually tells us that a new season has begun.
I don’t know how my friends at…

You might have followed the discussion about Sabine Junginger’s last posting “Design as Process or Inquiry”. In the course of her doctoral thesis Sabine seems to have spent some reasonable resources on thinking about design management. Unfortunately I did not find the time yet to engage in a more in depth discussion on her view on [...]

In light of the interest in strategy, I have pushed back a story that talks about design research versus scientific research. Though it fits beautifully with our ongoing conversation, I wanted to highlight a few other points first. John Kotter distinguishes between “management” and “leadership.” For him, “management” is to keep a system running as [...]

Well I returned from a well deserved holiday recently and it’s amazing to see how much can happen in the blogshere within a week only …! Beside all the other (digital; mostly email) stuff to be caught…

It is quite an honor to be invited as a guest blogger on this site. I have followed Ralf’s blog for a while now and we have discovered that some of the issues I am looking at in my work very much relate to the concerns and interests of the participants of Vol. 2: design-management.de. [...]

Guest Blogger Jörg Walters writes: … I consider my work as helping companies to make design a success factor of their business. And as many organizations haven’t used that before at all, my work doesn’t only mean high-fly strategies of the type “You should do it like Apple does”. Much more, I am trying to generate certainty at the client side that creativity is manageable and that design is a competitive advantage. … >>>

While my last posting on “Design (Management) Definitions” evolved from heuristic web browsing it seems to have attracted two readers: Jörg Walters (Amsterdam/NL) and Mark Fenwick from ‘nesta’ (London/UK) to post their highly interesting comments. While Jörg states that Designers and Design Managers shouldn’t claim to have answers to every problem, Mark provides a good [...]

Summer is back again here in Germany :-) So for today only a quick post about a well assembled list of design definitions I’ve discovered on designfeast.com recently. Beside delivering some current stereotypes on design the list provides an array of interesting definitions on design related to different contexts: – On Design Advice – On [...]

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 [...]

While blogging in germany just starts to kick-off as a serious activity, marketers from anglo-saxon countries already start reasoning about the value and opportunities weblogs create and offer for corporations. This week’s online issue of “brandchannel.com” is offering a paper on “Developing Effective Communication Strategies for the Blogsphere By Brenna Tinkel”. Her paper seeks to [...]

these days seem to be the days of blogger networks. it’s amazing how many profesionally edited and designed blogs are out there in the meantime. I’m currently thinking about how to integrate this in my daily blogging as well. more to come … while * vol. 1: design-management.de * seemed to be quite unique two [...]