Via Diego Rodriguez c/o metacool I’ve learned about the new issue of the Rotman School of Management Magazine (current pdf). This is an immensely interesting issue. While questions of risk (management) are the main theme, it pokes much deeper from there, touching problems of human decision making, organizational pathologies and much more. Moreover there are […]
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
SoulSoup links here to an AIGA pdf (“Design in business strategy”), noting What designers offer to clients is a way of thinking. The “Why” booklet outlines the role of design in business strategy. It seeks a common framework for why design adds value to clients’ interests. The booklet is written for our designer members, to […]
Via the David Report blog I’ve learned of this new magazine Monocle, trying to be “a monthly magazine delivering the most original coverage in global affairs, business, culture and design.” This spans five fields … ABCDE – Affairs – A global mix of reportage, essays and interviews with the forces shaping geopolitics – Business – […]
Nice little piece in the Times on prosumers, customer involvement, user-generated content et al. Note: “Some of the ideas from customers are striking, but impossible to make,” […] What tends to work best, […] are intriguing twists on design themes that he and his colleagues are already exploring. “But even submissions we can’t make add […]
I found this article in the November 1998 issue of Mercer Management Journal via bplusd, a design-thinking blog by Jess McMullin. Funny that McMullins calls this newish, the article is now 7 years old. Here’s the abstract on the business design article: The discipline of Business Design is a means to capture value from the […]
