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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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Hooray for the heretics, and the agents of changeJay Peters, May 20th, 2010 |
Across industries, roles and regions, it is often believed that the way to get ahead in ones career is to show up, work hard, do as you are told, and eventually you will get recognized and move your way up through the ranks. However, that does not really foster innovation and growth on an organizational level. At the end of the day, if companies are not innovating, they are quickly fading away, and that does not seem like job security to me!
Within Design Management and the buzz around design thinking these days, it is becoming more accepted that an …
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 Product Experience (by H. Schifferstein and P. Hekkert) The book is a compilation of articles on experience product research, and provides a very good basis to explore the field. It is a must for everyone looking beyond the visual characteristics of a product. » buy book |
 Brand sense (by Martin Lindstrom) To know more about how branding has been neglecting our five senses and should incorporate more than vision and sound only, you should read this book. It explains how to build powerful brands through touch, taste, smell, sight and sound. » buy book |
