Design managers meeting in Barcelona: great initiative!

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Design managers meeting in Barcelona: great initiative!

Tim Selders, July 1st, 2009

I just received the news letter from the Barcelona Design Center, talking about a design managers meeting they just organized.

At PARK, we have been doing a similar thing for the last 6 years, together with EdenSpiekerman. We gave it a bit more eccentric name: ‘Raymond’…

A yearly 2-day session with 10-15 senior design directors discussing some of their design management issues together. And being suprised that some of their issues are actually very similar… img_raymond_v_0011

Although this may sound competitive to the BCD initiative, I am happy the event in Barcelona took place. It is a great way to further strengthen the design management profession!

I am convinced that these type of events pay off much more for design management professionals than visiting any regular Design Management conference…

More of this, please!

Tags: conference, discussion, Raymond

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