It’s a new year. For many, it comes with new goals, new energy, and even big dreams. Yet many people soon feel stymied by the same old job, same old challenges and same old routines. But it doesn’t have to be that way. It just might be that you can get a better job without […]
Read MoreThe aesthetics of management.
By Marty Neumeier. I’m not a big fan of the 13th-century philosopher Thomas Aquinas, but I have to admit, when I first read Ad pulcritudenum tria requiruntur integritas, consonantia, claritas, I was right there with him. Roughly translated, he was saying beauty needs three qualities: integrity, harmony, and radiance. Integrity is the quality of standing […]
Read MoreMobile experience. Mobile design. Mobile workforce.
Mobile experience comes from mobile design Last Monday Apple announced a series of upgrades to its iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems towards a more seamless integration, and also Apple HomeKit, a new OS for your home. And Google has taken steps into the home digital environment with the purchase of Nest, a sensor-driven thermostat […]
Read MoreInnovation culture – questions to explore.
The premise is simple; in study after study CEO’s agree, they all want their organizations to be more innovative, but few know how. Traditional models of innovation, such as relying on R&D for technology-based innovation or on marketing for incremental extensions-based innovation, most often fall short. An emerging and more scalable model is design-led innovation; […]
Read MoreThe trouble with Cascading Creativity.
By Marty Neumeier. Cascading creativity is a traditional decision-making model in which strategic choices are made at the top and then flow downward, level by level, to be executed by tactical teams along the path toward the finish line. In this model, project decisions move in one direction only, from internal company strategy to external […]
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 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 […]
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