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Florian Weiss March 8th, 2010 |
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…
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Sorena Veerman February 28th, 2010 |
Forget BusinessWeek’s BCG research into the most innovative companies or Interbrand Best Global Brands research to proof the value of design. Their focus is on financial measurements only.
Instead, meet the new research into best brands: the Good Brands Report by PSKF. This report describes the brands that not only lead in innovation, but also in…
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Marjolein de Wilde February 22nd, 2010 |
Many design leaders still struggle how they can demonstrate that design contributes to an organisation. The article by John Heskett (2009)1 attempts to fundament the necessity of communicating the value of design. He does this by explaining how design is, or better said, is not integrated into contemporary economic theory. An interesting approach, describing the shortcomings of the economic theories that have dominated our thinking…
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Tim Selders February 14th, 2010 |
Recently a wise and knowledgeable man reviewed our website.
He said: ‘I do understand that you are managing design and that that is close to management consultancy, but where is your love for and opinion about good design? I cannot find it…’
I was flabbergasted.
We had gone through some great lengths to create a site that expressed a professional, analytical and business-like approach…
| Fennemiek Gommer Completely agree. Better design management should lead to better design. If you don't share a vision on what the end ... |
| Jay Peters Often we get so caught up in “doing” business that we loose track of why we are doing it. In ... |
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Frans Joziasse February 7th, 2010 |
A global research studied the habits of 25 innovative entrepreneurs (1). The researchers found that innovators are different due to five discovery skills:
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| Ulf I think it might be right that innovative entrepreneurs differ themselves in these 5 points from others. But in my opinion ... |
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Frans Joziasse February 1st, 2010 |
60%- 70% of world’s jobs are created by small and medium enterprises (SME’s).
And yet, most design management practice is focussing on large, global companies.
We believe it is time to develop dedicated design management approaches for SME’s!
One of these approaches is ‘managing design for locality’:
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| Marjolein de Wilde This observation was confirmed as well during the workshop we held with a group of senior design managers from leading ... |
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Tim Selders January 21st, 2010 |
In our daily work, we experience that more and more design managers are talking about behavioural design. They then refer to how to design the behaviour of sales staff or other representatives of an organisation, connecting it to the identity and look & feel of that organisation.
It is slowly considered to be a design discipline alongside graphic, product and environmental design. There are…
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PARK January 11th, 2010 |
Four to five times per year, PARK sends out a statement on design management to around 80 design directors and design managers throughout Europe. Many of them react whether they agree or not. See below one of those statements and a selection of their reactions…
STATEMENT
Design managers and directors must pay more attention to the writing skills of their designers, helping them to show…
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| Marjolein de Wilde
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| Sarah Blesius
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| Tim Selders
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| Sorena Veerman
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| Internal knowledge bank To share & benefit from commonly gathered design insights & design experiences. |
| Trends matrix To apply trend info onto design challenges. |
| Process storyboard To facilitate the understanding of a process or tool and its application. |
I totally agree with your last paragraph! It's just true!