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Management consultants needed?PARK, November 10th, 2010 |
The tasks facing the manager of large corporate design departments have grown. Do their scale and difficulty now mean that it’s useful to hire mainstream management consultants – McKinsey, BCG, Booz Allen, for example – to help design managers with strategic issues and major overhauls of organisation?
For managers of hundreds of designers, life isn’t getting any simpler. Issues such as globalization, regulation, HR, the coordination of IT and the understanding of trends place great demands.
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Design departments working together: a way to do more with less?Tim Selders, June 28th, 2010 |
Our company is still in the middle of a crisis, and all budgets, especially for R&D, are going down… But simultaneously there is a strong demand by our leaders to deliver more and more products, and the pressure to deliver more innovation is only increasing. How are we, at the design department, going to deal with the fact that we need to do more with less available resources?
Being super-efficient helps to ‘do more with less’. But let’s
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To be a designer or not, that is the question for a design manager…Tim Selders, March 31st, 2010 |
Have you ever seen the hilarious TV series ‘The IT Crowd’?
If you have, you saw a young ambitious lady manager trying to lead a bunch of IT nerds in the cellar of a big office building.
You then also may have noticed that that didn’t work…
This is a sit-com, but what about real life?
Is it possible to have a ‘bunch of creative designers’ led by a generally trained MBA-kind of manager?
This has been one of the discussions we had during our Raymond session, where 25 design directors and managers from all over Europe gathered.
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Get the basics right first!Florian Weiss, March 8th, 2010 |
Development of management concept fads, 1950-2000 (cf. Pascale)
New buzzwords are dominating the design management discussion here and there, most recent in the design thinking debate. But are you sure which fashions are worth to follow? How do you decide in which issues you are going to invest time and money?
Certainly, other disciplines are facing the same challenge, e.g. a huge amount of new management concepts, tools and themes are published in business magazines, daily magazines and management books. Many researchers are focusing on the effectiveness and efficiency of management concepts, tools and techniques, but there is little knowledge …
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 Cox review of creativity in business (by HM Treasury, led by Sir George Cox) The Cox review was commissioned to look at how best to enhance UK business productivity by drawing on British creative capabilities. » open website |
 DMI Website (by Design Management Institute) The website of the Design Management Institute is fully dedicated to design management and offers articles, courses and conferences. » visit website |
