Various studies have shown that designer usually only parts of their professional work really do as designers. That fact alone gives a lot of possibilities to develop a career for designers and design managers alike....
Really interesting to find out that this book has only 60 small pages. I don’t know what I actually expected but this was a nice surprise. In the book, there is some really good advice. To remember from this book, in my opinion, is: successful careers are not planned. … But naturally one has to be prepared for it. Even more, if you succeed you should start developing a parallel career....
The design manager should be able to manage:design people,design budgets,design timetables,design work,design organizations. It is obvious that it is a wide range of complex skills, especially if we consider that design managers are often supposed to be the design leaders too.A design leadership requires on the other hand six basic skills:envisioning the future,manifesting strategic intent,directing design investment,managing corporate reputation,nurturing the environment for innovation,training for design leadership (Turner in MacDonald (ed), 2004, p. 14). Source: MacDonald, Stuart (ed). 2004. Design Issues in Europe Today. The Bureau of European Design Associations – BEDA, 58 p....
The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation is a book by Marty Neumeier. My rating of the book is 4 out of 5 stars. Part manifesto, part handbook, it's a lively overview of a growing trend in management design thinking as a business competence....
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