Business Design: The curriculum of 2012

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Christian Drehkopf

I´ve stumbled on an excellent article about the idea of an advanced degree in Business Design. The article has been written by Ryan Jacoby a Business Designer at IDEO. He mentions that some programs like the d.school and Rotman are playing with this idea, but believes that these programs don´t really nail it yet. [...]

A Busines-Design definition

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Christian Drehkopf

After more than three years of work for global players in automotive, information technology, consumer media, and mobile businesses we like to present a definition of Business-Design. This definition is opened for discussion – so feel free to leave your comments. Constructive critic is always welcome.

Business Design:

Since the first use of tools to achieve [...]

Oxford study: What do service designers do?

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Christian Drehkopf

Watch movie: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk
This short film adopts a practice perspective to explore what is distinctive about the ways professional service designers go about designing or redesigning services. The film follows in detail one of the three paired projects in the D4S study, an encounter between London-based service innovation and design consultancy live|work, and g-Nostics, a company [...]

Defining the Designer of 2015

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Christian Drehkopf

AIGA and Adobe together have launched an initiative to define the professional characteristics of designers in 2015. Take a few minutes and get on their nice survey by http://designerof2015.aiga.org
Anyone out there already doing that for business people?