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Educate design managers in design!

Tim Selders, July 14th, 2010

That sounds like an open door. But in practice it is not…

Education programmes for design managers often focus strongly on business of managerial skills. They tend to forget further education on design, that goes beyond Master programmes at University.

Do not forget to educate your design managers about creation and creativity.
They will need updating about the latest developments in technology, professional practice, social forecasting and the arts.

And, not unimportant, they will love it!…

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Design departments working together: a way to do more with less?

Tim Selders, June 28th, 2010

In the beginning of this year we discussed with several design directors and managers. One of them challenged us with the following:

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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Tags: collaboration, departments, design
Posted in: Design Management, Design Organisation, Design Teams |

Innovating design management education

Florian Weiss, July 27th, 2009

Next month the Universities Act of the Finnish Aalto University will come into effect, which was approved by the Parliament a month ago. According to the new law, the Aalto university will become effective in January 2010 and this is an important step for the new institution which is a merger of three established finnish universities: Helsinki’s School of Economics (HSE), University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK), and University of Technology (TKK). The three universities are already cooperating for the International Design Business Management Programme (IDBM) since 13 years. IDBM aims …

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Tags: Aalto University, design, education, innvation, t-shaped professionals, technology
Posted in: Design Management Education, Innovation Management |

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.

Business Model Generation
(by Osterwalder Alexander and Pigneur Yves)

This Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers provides an tool to define business models easily in workshop settings. Based on a PhD on business model it was elaborated with co-authors to a usable handbook.

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The future of management
(by Gary Hamel)

This book by Gary Hamel is an inspiring book, challenging the current thinking of innovation within management.

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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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