Tag: culture


Jay Peters

Re-thinking Design & It’s Transformation


Jay Peters, August 31st, 2010

Next week the PARK team rolls into London to attend the (postponed) 14th annual DMI European conference with this years theme on Design Transformation.  I recently had the opportunity to attend the 22nd Design/Management Thinking conference in June in San Francisco with the theme of Re-Thinking the future of Design.  Comparing the topics covered between the two conferences, it is great to see that design is continuing to gain headway into more facets of organizations, globally, thus enabling design to take new roles and responsibilities. A few hot topics I am concentrating to stay abreast upon …

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PARK

Norms, simple, clear and agreed…


PARK, August 17th, 2010

… are now the way forward in design management!

Over the past decade, the practice of design management has become more professionalised. Corporate boards take leaders of design functions seriously. Boards, however, affirm top design managers informally. In the recruitment of design managers, they don’t have a whole lot of evidence to go on, apart from candidate résumés and war stories. Introducing some sensible norms for design management practice would help designers continue the process of professionalisation into the next decade.

The way design managers do their work and succeed in it cannot be left at the level of oral …

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Jay Peters

Hooray for the heretics, and the agents of change


Jay 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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