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Green Economy & comments by Tracy Harris
Companies' virtues leave little to be desired, meaning that their policies end up legislating on their behalf with regard to ecology and green economy issues. (Globalization flies in the face of green)...
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Designer, creator, manager,…the combination for a winning equation
Students used to enroll in design schools mostly, if not solely, to acquire technical skills. And we have to recognize that in times past students were evaluated only on their technical skills. But...
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“Design school graduates also need to be entrepreneurs”
Interview for a magazine of Education Christian Guellerin has been the director of the Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique for 13 years. This former head of a business school, who has also worked at the...
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Design schools : from creation to management
Given the turbulent socio-economic climate, the number of remarkable opportunities awaiting design schools is not only impressive, involving the training of students who will occupy tomorrow’s top...
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A design-, creation- and innovation-friendly context
Economic and industrial models are crumbling away. Economists everywhere seem incapable of predicting or solving problems facing Western countries. The reality is that universities of economics,...
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“Made in” is over. Time to go for “Designed by”
(...) Western businesses may soon be in an outward-bound predicament in order to bridge the gap with booming markets abroad. It has now become urgent that they equip themselves with the necessary...
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The Secret of Innovative Corporations
In a context of international competition, where companies are not on equal footing, total quality management policies must give way to innovation abilities, where people reach beyond a given framework...
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Design schools, the new incubators
Western economies are looking for a new life, a new impulse. If States are now looking at ways of containing the debt crisis, of saving banks from bankruptcy, it is in the field of business and...
View ArticleProductive recovery: design to the rescue
21 proposals have just been made to promote design, by the “European Design Leadership Board.” Finally, the European Commission seems to have become aware of the issues at stake. The European...
View ArticleThe Highs and Lows of “Design Thinking”
The buzzword going around these days is “Design Thinking.” Management just got a hold of its latest “holy grail.” Training programs are slowly popping up all over the place. The top American business...
View ArticleDesign Management: Reawakening “manual labor”, or what Design schools are...
Just as corporate competitiveness issues are more frequently dotting the economic landscape, where economists and politicians are perpetually, and somewhat in vain, setting up more Ministries,...
View ArticleEducation: Design, Creativity and Knowledge
Design and creativity should be taught at school. “Reading counting, creating” should be the new trilogy in elementary schools.
View Article“No MOOC(*)? You’re a moron (*)!“
”MOOCs“ are in. Every college and school across the board has one: “No MOOC? You’re a moron.” What lies in store for universities and select business, engineering, and scientific schools once every...
View ArticleDesign and Corporate Social Responsibility: A matter of morals or personal gain?
A recent presentation given to the Regional Leaders of Western France led me not only to reflect on what binds Corporate Social Responsibility to the Design field, but also question the role that the...
View Article“Made in France” takes backseat to “Designed by France”
When it comes to buying a car, or anything else for that matter composed of spare parts, what exactly does “Made in France” mean? Does this notion not go against the flow of French industry? Is there...
View ArticleThe sky’s the limit: The career of “in house” designers
The 2nd Annual “Design, mode d’emploi” Forum was held on December 10, 2014 at the Paris Commodities Exchange. It was the chance to highlight the growing interest that businesses are showing in “in...
View ArticleDesign school: the school for the managers of tomorrow
In 1994, professors from HEC published a book entitled, “SCHOOL FOR THE MANAGERS OF TOMORROW.” Its focus was on pondering the changes in teachings, methods of learning, frameworks, and more generally,...
View ArticleFDE Manifesto
France Design Éducation (FDE) 11 prestigious French design schools, which gathered in FDE, wrote this Manifesto which deals with the evolution of the designer's responsibilities and with the academic...
View ArticleDesign and Leadership?
Design has crossed over into a strategic dimension. In organizations that have made innovation their modus operandi, designers have no other choice but to assert themselves as leaders there within.
View ArticleBusinesses in search of meaning
In his book, entitled Innovation and Entrepreneurship*, Peter Drucker sheds light on the amazing climb to success experienced by Rank Xerox and Gillette. He attributes it, among other things, to the...
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