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Game-storming: Think in action to boost creativity

Florian Weiss, February 9th, 2011

Game storming – The ten essentials by Gray, Brown and Macanufo (click image for downloading PDF)

Games are a perfect mechansim for organizing collaboration, creativity and networking. The structured, scalable and social format allows to deal with complexity, wicked problems and uncertainties in a very flexible and thought-provoking way. The approach builds a real-world system in which insights and opportunities can be generated and strategies can be tested.

Methods and approaches to work with complexity and wicked problems have been germinating since the 1970′s. In the early years of design management the discipline was strongly influenced by system science and …

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Tags: creativity, game, innovation
Posted in: Design Management |

Creativity & efficiency; an impossible combination?

Sorena Veerman, January 24th, 2011

Nowadays, more and more design departments strive for efficiency. Within an environment that is stressed for time, an often heard complaint from designers is that they feel there’s no room for creativity anymore. They feel, for instance, management is keeping them from being creative, or there’s simply no time for creativity anymore.

Contradictionary to this perception, is the general statement in literature that creativity doesn’t require time. Instead creativity requires skills, focus and the right attitude.

The book Creativity Today^[1] shares this statement and claims that by improving the basic skills of creativity; confidence, motivation and your creative potential …

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Tags: creativity
Posted in: Design Culture, Design Management, Design Teams |

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.

My conclusion …

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Tags: creativity, design team, MBA, Raymond
Posted in: Design Management, Design Organisation, Design Teams |

Activities

What are we doing?

Sorena: Preparing a case study for capturing a design language to share during a workshop with designers.
03-02-2012
Amrita: Planning validation phase in the concept development phase.
02-02-2012
Sorena: Brainstorming possible future business scenarios with client.
24-01-2012
Florian: Defining a stage gate process and design strategy for the design department.
18-01-2012
Marjolein: Creating a poster to communicate the companies vision of design management.
18-01-2012

Meet the team

name:		Frans Joziasse, MSc MBA
Position:		partner
Office:		PARK advanced design management Waterloohain 9 22769 Hamburg Germany
Phone:		+49 (0)40 28056233
Fax:		+49 (0)40 22925852
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name:		Tim Selders, MSc
Position:		partner
Office:		PARK advanced design management Nieuwendijk 8a 4225 PD Noordeloos The Netherlands
Phone:		+31 (0)183 589131
Fax:		+31 (0)183 589132
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name:		Sorena Veerman, MSc
Position:		consultant
Office:		PARK advanced design management Nieuwendijk 8a 4225 PD Noordeloos The Netherlands
Phone:		+31 (0)183 589131
Fax:		+31 (0)183 589132
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name:		Florian Weiss, MA
Position:		consultant
Office:		PARK advanced design management Waterloohain 9 22769 Hamburg Germany
Phone:		+49 (0)40 28056233
Fax:		+49 (0)40 22925852
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name:		Marjolein de Wilde, MSc
Position:		consultant
Office:		PARK advanced design management Waterloohain 9 22769 Hamburg Germany
Phone:		+49 (0)40 28056233
Fax:		+49 (0)40 22925852
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name:		Jay Peters, MA
Position:		consultant
Office:		PARK advanced design management Nieuwendijk 8a 4225 PD Noordeloos The Netherlands
Phone:		+31 (0)183 589131
Fax:		+31 (0)183 589132
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name:		Amrita Bhui, MSc
Position:		junior consultant
Office:		PARK advanced design management Nieuwendijk 8a 4225 PD Noordeloos The Netherlands
Phone:		+31 (0)183 589131
Fax:		+31 (0)183 589132
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name:		Freek Wallaard, BA
Position:		junior developer
Office:		PARK advanced design management Nieuwendijk 8a 4225 PD Noordeloos The Netherlands
Phone:		+31 (0)183 589131
Fax:		+31 (0)183 589132
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name:		Kaylee Gruber, BA
Position:		trainee
Office:		PARK advanced design management Waterloohain 9 22769 Hamburg Germany
Phone:		+49 (0)40 28056233
Fax:		+49 (0)40 22925852
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name:		Carola Boogerd
Position:		office manager
Office:		PARK advanced design management Nieuwendijk 8a 4225 PD Noordeloos The Netherlands
Phone:		+31 (0)183 589131
Fax:		+31 (0)183 589132
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name:		Sarah Blesius, DipMA
Position:		office manager
Office:		PARK advanced design management Waterloohain 9 22769 Hamburg Germany
Phone:		+49 (0)40 28056233
Fax:		+49 (0)40 22925852
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External opinion

name:		Aart van Bezooyen, MSc
Position:		owner
Office:		Material Stories
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Inspiration

Things that inspire us

Please find a list of materials that inspired us on this site and a preview below.

The Handbook of Design Management
(by R. Cooper, S. Junginger, T. Lockwood)

The Handbook of Design Management presents a state-of-the-art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and future. A collection of contributions from the best known experts in design management.

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PresentationZen design
(by Garr Reynolds)

If you want some more tips & tricks on creating better presentations, "Presentation Zen Design" will be very helpful to encourage you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design and delivery of your presentations.

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Definitions, definitions

Since we started the Wikipedia articles on design management in 2005, we continuously improve and update the descriptions.

Definition of design management in English language.
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Definition of design management in German language.
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Please co-define, translate and help in creating a better understanding of design management.

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Game-storming: Think in action to boost creativity

Creativity & efficiency; an impossible combination?

To be a designer or not, that is the question for a design manager…

Activities

Inspiration