Service design, service innovation, design thinking, design strategy
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2010
Monika Hestad over at Plan (link) sent me a link to Kevin McCullaghs thoughtful comments (link) to the design thinking session organised by the Economist (link). This was remarkable for several reasons.
Firstly, that the Economist has organised something big around design thinking (for a detailed view on Design Thinking, look here). Secondly, Kevin has some [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2009
Recently, there has been a flurry of activity around some new terms, Design thinking and Design leadership. I think they are interesting terms, and describe some new directions for design. Design thinking, suggests to me, that designers have a different way of thinking - visual, abductive etc, which means that they have relevance outside of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2009
Those clever people down at the British Design Council seem to have been reading my mind. I have been discussing with Berte Helgestad from Norsk Tipping (link) about scenarios and forecasting and the role of design in this. I think Design has a lot to offer to both, in terms of Design Thinking, but also [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2008
By Judith Gloppen
I was really pleased to notice that an article about Design Thinking had finally found its way into the Harvard Business Review this summer. In the June 2008 issue IDEO’s CEO Tim Brown writes about how design and Design Thinking can be part of the innovation process.
I like Tim Browns definition of Design [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2008
Judith has had her paper accepted for the Design Management conference in Paris in April. Her paper will focus upon design leadership and some of the terms that it has evolved from (design thinking, design management, strategic design etc). More information about the conference (here). Judiths abstract is available by mail from her.Simon has submitted [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2008
We have submitted an abstract for the Design Management Institute academic conference this spring in Paris. There is strong competition to present papers, and we are hopeful that we will be accepted. The suggested paper we wish to present will critically review terms that are used to describe the role of design in strategic decision [...]