Back in town | Sites worth a visit
I returned from a well deserved holiday recently and it’s amazing to see how much is happening in the blogsphere within a single week only …! Beside all the other (digital; mostly email) stuff waiting...
View ArticleSabine Junginger on design management vs. design leadership
In light of the interest in strategy, I have pushed back a story that talks about design research versus scientific research. Though it fits beautifully with our ongoing conversation, I wanted to...
View ArticleComment on Sabines Junginger’s 2nd guest posting
You might have followed the discussion about Sabine Junginger’s last posting “Design as Process or Inquiry”. In the course of her doctoral thesis Sabine seems to have spent some reasonable resources on...
View ArticleFoliage, Transitions, Learning from others and Disruptive Processes
It seems that the end of the summer is also a time to contemplate. Foliage with its fascinating and colourful “designs” visually tells us that a new season has begun. I don’t know how my friends at the...
View ArticleDesign thinking and learning from each other
Regular visitors of my blog might have noticed that I’ve participated in a conference about organizational democracy two weeks ago. Beside the fact that I still owe you some impressions from the forum...
View ArticleInnovation, Design & Blogs
It’s amazing how many great blogs are edited these days and I’ve reported earlier that it seems almost impossible to trace them all. Fortunately free web-based tools like Bloglines monitor and collect...
View ArticleAbout Cheerleaders and Football Players
In Niti Bhan’s recent posting ‘Fear of blogging’ she’s describing the blogoshere as follows: “As with any large high school :) there are cliques and groups and popular kids and football players and...
View ArticleDesign at the intersection of Creativity & Sex
A lot has been written about the interplay of Innovation and Design these days. While I find the discussion spirited I also feel annoyed about the self-centered tone tone and direction. I think I will...
View ArticleThank You for 2005!
It seems that the closer we come to Christmas posting frequency goes down not only at Vol.2: design-management.de. Therefore I’ve decided to take a short, intended “hiatus” and concentrate on some...
View ArticleReasoning about Bill Gates and Design Thinking …
Via the mysterious MITD I’ve stumbled upon “Management Focus – the free newsletter from ManagementFirst” and in their latest issue I’ve found the following quote by Bill Gates: “The first rule of any...
View ArticleDesign and the Art of Playing Soccer
… I finally gave up ignoring that it’s soccer world cup time here in Germany. I even start to like it … While it has been asked here and there recently: “What is “Design’s” real contribution?” I’ve...
View ArticleFrom Blogs to (Real World) Conversations
In early June I’ve blogged about “reboot8.0” a conference on “the intersection of digital technology and change” which I’d have loved to attend. Unfortunately I couldn’t join this year, but yesterday...
View ArticleOn Stage Fright and Nobel Prize Winners
Niti Bhan’s posting from today triggered me to raise my voice again here on this blog. In a somehow coquettish manner she is describing her little competition with another Design & Business Blogger...
View ArticleDesign by Nature: iPods are everywhere
As some of you might know I’ve entered the Design Management sphere via the management side as I’m not a trained designer. Therefore I highly appreciated the basic insight (provided via my personal...
View ArticleLEGO and Design Leadership (Revised)
[Note: This posting is a revised version of my posting from November 30st. While I did not change the body text I’ve removed the link to the YouTube video of/about the teenager who executed the school...
View ArticleHype: New Kids On The Blog
GK Patter from NextD contacted me recently to add my 2 cents to the discussion which has been brought up by a speech of Bruce Nussbaum at Parsons recently. I didn’t do so mainly because I’m not a...
View ArticleThe Liminal Space between Academia and Practice
A great piece perfectly describing my very own journeys between academia and practice and written in a well articulated format has been published now by frog design consultant Jon Kolko over at Core77....
View ArticleDear Blog: Happy 5th Anniversary!
As the summer vacation period is starting soon I’d thought I celebrate and share the 5th anniversary of this blog a little bit earlier than scheduled with you. If you have a closer look at the ‘Full...
View ArticleDesign Thinking and the likes
I somehow have a hard time recently to catch up with all the stuff that happens around me on and off-line. Beside the reasonable business travelling I’ve done recently to NL, CH, then back to NL and CH...
View ArticleThe Power of Images
Anyone out there who still has doubts about the power of images and charisma? Well have a look at this amazing set of pictures from Boston.com. This image is courtesy of AP Photo/Alex Brandon taken at...
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