Archive for January, 2006

MBA and now? Go to India!

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

I’ve already written some pieces about the growing importance of India and China on this blog recently. A few minutes ago David Griffiths, a friend of mine from the design management context and a lecturer at the Zollverein School send me this email:

“The firm is Idiom - www.idiom.co.in [job roles are listed on the site […]

On needs, wants, and nice-to-have’s

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Last weekend I’ve had the chance to communicate the basics about this blog to the first class of Zollverein School MBAs who will be (hopefully ;-) contributing to this blog soon and share insights about recent projects they’ve been working on.
I was lucky to arrive a little bit earlier at the Zollverein Site and […]

What is Design Management?

Friday, January 27th, 2006

This posting is for Annkathrin Sonn ;-), the new person in charge for Corporate Communications at the Zollverein School of management and design in Essen/Germany. Annkathrin recently joined the Zollverein School and while having a conversation with her last Tuesday I’ve learned that she’s highly interested in the intersection of business, management & design. As […]

Davos, Economics and Left & Right Brain Thinking

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

As you might have recognised Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek’s innovation design blogger is currently reporting directly from the World Economic Forum in Davos: …

A designer is not just a craftsman. He’s also a thinker!

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

If you follow the recent discussion about design in the international press there clearly is an emphasis on the growing importance of design made in Asia. Among various reasons the continuous outsourcing of labour intensive tasks to Asia say China, Taiwan or Korea for many years now brings back the aesthetics and visual language of […]