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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.

A study of the design process
(by British Design Council)

Design Council researchers visited the design departments of eleven companies, all world-leaders in their fields and all with a public commitment to the use of design to improve their brand strength and product and service offerings.

» open website

Blue Ocean Strategy
(by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne)

This book deals with the organizational hurdles of innovation (cognitive hurdle, motivational hurdle and political hurdle) and about how to make the competition Irrelevant by moving into uncontested market space.

» buy book

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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.
[de.wikipedia.org]

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

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