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The Strategic Designer

Author : David Holston

Publisher : HOW Books

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 12,91 MB

Release : 2011-04-28

Category : Design

ISBN : 1600617999

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Book Description

Providing insight on how to be a successful and strategic designer, David Holston answers many of the questions plaguing the profession today, including how to boost efficiency and enhance creativity. The design profession has been asking itself some important questions lately: How do designers deal with the increasing complexity of design problems? What skills do designers need to be competitive in the future? How do designers become co-creators with clients and audiences? How do designers prove their value to business? Designers are looking for ways to stay competitive in the conceptual economy and address the increasing complexity of design problems. By adopting a process that considers collaboration, context and accountability, designers move from 'makers of things' to 'design strategists.' The Strategic Designer shows designers how to build strong client relationships, elevate their standing with clients, increase project success rates, boost efficiency, and enhance their creativity.



Managing Strategic Design

Author : Ray Holland

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 29,17 MB

Release : 2014-11-20

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 113732595X

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Book Description

This core textbook emphasizes the power of design management to drive corporate strategic goals, showing how design strategies can be thoughtfully formulated and managed to improve the performance of organizations. Taking an engaging and accessible approach, this book will help design students and graduates to apply new concepts of design management in their works and to use design strategically to achieve organizational visions and targets. Throughout the book's tripartite structure – comprising an introduction to the topic, followed by sections on how strategic design can be used to support key businesses functions and how it can be used to push organisations forward – a strong link is made between design and marketing and the delivery of design-led branding. This textbook is essential for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying design management on art and design degrees. It also caters for practitioners and specialist elective modules offered on business and management, and marketing and entrepreneurship courses in business schools.



Design Management

Author : Kathryn Best

Publisher : AVA Publishing

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 34,72 MB

Release : 2006-10-31

Category : Art

ISBN : 2940373124

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Book Description

Brings together the study of two different disciplines: design and management. Promotes a clearer understanding of the relationship between the two and its importance within an organisation. Clear guide to managing the strategy, the process and the implementation of a project from conception to delivery.



Design Management

Author : Kathryn Best

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 529 pages

File Size : 10,49 MB

Release : 2015-07-23

Category : Design

ISBN : 1474260373

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Book Description

Design management (the management of design strategies, processes and projects) is an intricate subject. As the role of design in the world continues to broaden, organisations are increasingly viewing design as being integral to their decision-making processes. Opening with a contextual overview of the subject, Design Management then explores the stages involved in the application of design to business. Each topic is accompanied by key questions that get the reader to think about the issues raised, and professional case studies and interviews demonstrate the knowledge and practices described. Areas of key practical skills are outlined in order to bridge the gap between creativity management and academic theory, and professional practice.



Strategic Design Thinking

Author : Natalie W. Nixon

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 27,43 MB

Release : 2015-10-22

Category : Design

ISBN : 1628924705

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Book Description

Who can design? For too long, that question has highlighted the supposed division between right-brain dominant “creative types” and left-brain dominant “analytical types." Such a division is not practical for preparing students to become innovative contributors to the complex world of design. Strategic Design Thinking guides readers to cultivate hybrid thinking, whether their background is design, finance, or any discipline in between. This book is an introduction to an integrative approach using the lens of design thinking as a way to see the world. The focus is on process instead of solution, and on connecting disparate ideas instead of getting bogged down by silos of specialization. Through this book, students will be introduced to design management, strategic design, service design, and experience design.



The Design of Business

Author : Roger L. Martin

Publisher : Harvard Business Press

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 20,36 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1422177807

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Book Description

Most companies today have innovation envy. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative: they spend on R & D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants; but they still get disappointing results. Roger Martin argues that to innovate and win, companies need 'design thinking'.



Strategic Management of Innovation and Design

Author : Pascal Le Masson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 488 pages

File Size : 35,19 MB

Release : 2010-09-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1139915592

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Book Description

There is now widespread agreement that innovation holds the key to future economic and social prosperity in developed countries. Experts studying contemporary capitalism also agree that the battle against unemployment and relocations can only be won through innovation. But what kind of innovation is required and what is the best way to manage, steer and organize it? Grounded on experiences of innovative firms and based on recent design theories, this book argues that instead of relying on traditional R&D and project management techniques, the strategic management of innovation must be based on innovative design activities. It analyses and explains new management principles and techniques that deal with these activities, including innovation fields, lineages, C-K (Concept-Knowledge) diagrams and design spaces. The book is ideal for advanced courses in innovation management in industrial design schools, business schools, engineering schools, as well as managers looking to improve their practice.



Public Sector Strategy Design

Author : David E. McNabb

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 48,97 MB

Release : 2020-09-24

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1000193861

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Book Description

Within the public sector, strategies are not designed to influence markets, but instead to guide operations within a complex environment of multilateral power, influence, bargaining, and voting. In this book, authors David McNabb and Chung-Shingh Lee examine five frameworks public sector organization managers have followed when designing public sector strategies. Its purpose is to serve as a guide for managers and administrators of large and small public organizations and agencies. This book is the product of a combined more than sixty years of researching, teaching and leading organizational seminars on the theory and practice of management applications in industrial, commercial, nonprofit and public sector organizations. The book consists of four parts: Strategic Management and Strategy Fundamentals; Frameworks for Designing Strategies; Examples of Public Sector Strategies; and Implementing Strategic Management. Throughout, the focus is on the widespread value of strategic management and adopting the strategy appropriate for the organization. Including chapters on game theory, competitive forces, resources-based view, dynamic capabilities, and network governance, the authors demonstrate ways that real managers of public sector and civil society organizations have put strategic management to work in their organizations. This book will be of interest to both practicing and aspiring public servants.



Design Leadership

Author : Mr Raymond Turner

Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 426 pages

File Size : 48,86 MB

Release : 2013-05-01

Category : Design

ISBN : 1409463257

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Book Description

The fundamental tenet of this Design Leadership book is that design is a commercial and social imperative and its management and leadership are integral parts of what can make business successful, government effective and society safer and more enjoyable for everyone. The text draws on Raymond Turner’s extensive experience and insights into the effective use of design as a business resource for competitive advantage and social benefit. Raymond brings his experience of working for iconic businesses, projects and consultancies to provide essential, value creating, insights on the interface between design and business. Design Leadership adopts a straightforward approach that will be of great value to those who influence how organisations work - the managers and chief executives of a country’s wealth creating engines. It is also of particular relevance to those with design management and leadership responsibilities as well as students who aim to work in these roles. The ideas at the heart of the book concern all who shape society and have the brief to improve our lives. Raymond Turner’s advice will help all of these readers make design work and so become more effective more quickly.



Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation

Author : Idris Mootee

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 50,16 MB

Release : 2013-08-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1118620127

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A comprehensive playbook for applied design thinking in business and management, complete with concepts and toolkits As many companies have lost confidence in the traditional ways of running a business, design thinking has entered the mix. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation presents a framework for design thinking that is relevant to business management, marketing, and design strategies and also provides a toolkit to apply concepts for immediate use in everyday work. It explains how design thinking can bring about creative solutions to solve complex business problems. Organized into five sections, this book provides an introduction to the values and applications of design thinking, explains design thinking approaches for eight key challenges that most businesses face, and offers an application framework for these business challenges through exercises, activities, and resources. An essential guide for any business seeking to use design thinking as a problem-solving tool as well as a business method to transform companies and cultures The framework is based on work developed by the author for an executive program in Design Thinking taught in Harvard Graduate School of Design Author Idris Mootee is a management guru and a leading expert on applied design thinking Revolutionize your approach to solving your business's greatest challenges through the power of Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation.