I was enjoying a café with a good friend, Edgar Papke, who is an amazing CEO coach regarding leadership and corporate culture. As we know, culture tends to stem from the top. We were talking about the challenges of building cultures of innovation, and it seems CEO’s know very little about this. Many CEO’s delegate […]
Read MoreCultura Innovatus.
By Charles Bezerra. Not to be pessimistic, but we – as individuals, as a society – have many critical problems to face. We have created a standard of living that is incompatible with the resources of the planet, and it is predatory. Our idea of progress is materialistic, individualistic, and insatiable. We have become slaves […]
Read MoreDesign impact.
Everything made by human beings, albeit an object, environment, communication or interface, is designed. Everything. In fact, museums, our precious connections to the past, are the representations of man’s design abilities of the time. “Design” is a broad concept, and it can be best understood as both a plan to make something, as well as […]
Read MoreFive more things design firms can learn from retained recruiting firms.
There are many things that design firms can learn from recruiting firms, and visa-verse. Last week we published five ideas, here are five more tips for design firms to be more relevant to their clients. 6. Expand your content network and research methods. Develop content networks, not just sales leads. Retained recruiters build relations with […]
Read MoreFive things design firms can learn from retained recruiting firms.
I’ve been in the design business my whole career; owned a design firm for 9 years, been a corporate design and creative director for 11, a visiting professor in design management for 3, and a design association president for 5. Last year I made a career change to become a retained recruiter, focused exclusively on […]
Read MoreIndustrial design recruiting.
Specializing in industrial design recruiting, innovation recruiting and creative recruiting may sound like one category, but actually there are distinct nuances between each. We have found that while methods and processes may overlap, the vetting process has many unique differences. With roots in design and design management, we’ve taken a fresh look at the retained […]
Read MoreThe creative workforce.
In this age of innovation businesses require a creative spark. Surveys of CEO’s consistently point to a desire to develop more innovation power, but they don’t say how to do it. In my book Corporate Creativity, we did not try to address the basic cognitive or physiological issues of creativity, but rather explored the social […]
Read MoreHong Kong conference report.
Thoughts on “Design Management: Towards a New Era of Innovation” The 2011 Tsinghua-DMI International Design Management Symposium was created to explore “a new era of innovation”, and I would say it truly demonstrated a new era is upon us. The role of design management in innovation is growing world wide, and there are thought leaders […]
Read MoreFast moving design methods
There has always been a lot of focus on fast moving consumer goods, but what about fast moving ideas? Having recently helped create and run the “Tsinghua-DMI International Design Management Symposium” in Hong Kong, I think it’s time to talk about fast moving design methods. I am very impressed with the advancement of design management […]
Read MoreThe Design Mix
This was first posted on my blog at Fast Company in their Design section on 21 November. It proposes a “Design Mix”. Have you noticed how similar some products are becoming? A Tesla and a Lotus, that’s an easy one. But I’m talking about the similarities between seemingly disparate objects, like an Audi car and […]
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