Strategic Design: 8 Essential Practices Every Strategic Designer Must Master - Softcover

Calabretta, Giulia; Gemser, Gerda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9063694458 ISBN 13: 9789063694456

Publisher: BIS Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

The role of design professionals' in innovation is growing towards a more strategic one.

About this title

About the Authors

DR. GIULIA CALABRETTA is Assistant Professor of the Strategic Value of Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. Giulia received a Master’s Degree in Management and Marketing from Bocconi University (Italy). She also holds a PhD in Management Science from ESADE Business School (Spain), and a Post Doc from BI Norwegian School of Management (Norway). Giulia believes that using design and design practices is the best way for companies to become more innovative in nature and structure, and will prepare them to embrace the behavioural, technological and cultural revolutions of the future. Her current research focus is on understanding how design practices and capabilities can be eff ectively and permanently integrated into a company’s innovation strategy and processes. Additionally, she is interested in what makes a great Chief Design Officer, and why each company (and institution) should have one. Her research has been published in such journals as Organization Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Journal of Service Management.

Prof. Gerda Gemser is Full Professor of Business and Design at RMIT University of Technology and Design, Melbourne, Australia. She is one of the distinguished full professors appointed by RMIT University to stimulate design research. Gerda earned her PhD degree at the Rotterdam School of Management (The Netherlands). She has conducted different studies on the effects of design on company performance (in cooperation with the European governments and design associations such as the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO) and Premsela). She has held positions at different universities in The Netherlands, including Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University (Rotterdam School of Management). She has been a visiting scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (US) and Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (Canada). Her research is focused on management of innovation and design in particular. She is part of the editorial board of Journal of Design, Business and Society, is co-chair of the Advisory Board for the annual Design for Business research conference as organized by Agideas (Design Foundation Melbourne), and is part of the Executive Board of RMIT's Design Research Institute. She has published in journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning, and The Design Journal, International Journal of Design and Design Studies.

Dr Ingo Karpen is an Associate Professor and cross-disciplinary researcher in Marketing, Strategy, and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne. Ingo is also a visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. In his research, Ingo focuses on drawing on service and design principles to better understand and inform value co-creation strategies in service systems; measuring and investigating the interplay of service-driving organizational design and customer experience design; and managing service systems and human relations towards more engaging experience processes and experience outcomes. Ingo collaborates with international business partners across industries to facilitate knowledge generation for the betterment of business and society. He has published in the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Theory, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Journal of Service Theory and Practice and International Marketing Review. He is a recipient of several national and international awards for his teaching and research..

From the Back Cover

If you are a designer and want to better understand and develop your strategic potential, this book is for you! This book off ers eight strategic design practices for design professionals who seek to grow or have already grown into a more strategic role in innovation. These practices have been distilled by expert strategic designers (from, for instance, Philips, Fabrique, npk design, Lifework, Reframing Studio) and researchers in the field of strategic design. The practices are illustrated through tools, methods, cases and guidelines that together will enable you to quickly familiarize with them and get ready to apply them in your next strategic design project.

From the Inside Flap

If you are a designer and want to better understand and develop your strategic potential, this book is for you! This book off ers eight strategic design practices for design professionals who seek to grow or have already grown into a more strategic role in innovation. These practices have been distilled by expert strategic designers (from, for instance, Philips, Fabrique, npk design, Lifework, Reframing Studio) and researchers in the field of strategic design. The practices are illustrated through tools, methods, cases and guidelines that together will enable you to quickly familiarize with them and get ready to apply them in your next strategic design project.

Edition details

• Publisher: BIS Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9063694458
• ISBN 13: 9789063694456
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228