Design Dialogues » Organizational strategy http://designdialogues.com Reflections on the future from a point in present Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:44:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Guided by Values http://designdialogues.com/guided-by-values/ http://designdialogues.com/guided-by-values/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:54:13 +0000 Designdialogues http://designdialogues.com/?p=494 In  the latest HBS Working Knowledge, Rosabeth Moss Kanter makes the case in SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System that an organization’s strategy is best steered by establishing a clear and committed foundation of values. Organizational commitments to a way of being, not the meaningless kind that sit flat on the wall plaques in most of . . . → Read More: Guided by Values]]> http://designdialogues.com/guided-by-values/feed/ 1 Innovating as if your Future Depended on it. http://designdialogues.com/innovating-as-if-your-future-depended-on-it-y/ http://designdialogues.com/innovating-as-if-your-future-depended-on-it-y/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:35:50 +0000 Designdialogues http://designdialogues.com/?p=470 So we’re in an everlasting downturn and nobody is really sure what’s next in store for any industry, newspapers, broadcast, publishing, financial, automotive, retail, construction, food production, energy, healthcare. If the rational, reasonable Western world is in such a fit of uncertainty, we clearly need to be innovating our way forward.

Designers have always been . . . → Read More: Innovating as if your Future Depended on it.]]> http://designdialogues.com/innovating-as-if-your-future-depended-on-it-y/feed/ 0 Innovating in the eternal downturn http://designdialogues.com/innovating-in-the-eternal-downturn/ http://designdialogues.com/innovating-in-the-eternal-downturn/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:16:12 +0000 Designdialogues http://designdialogues.com/?p=459 You know we’re in a very unusual downdraft cycle when articles on keeping the faith with innovation during downturns remain popular. The perpetual (or is it eternal?) financial crisis has lasted long enough to sustain a cottage industry of books and workshops intended to help the waning innovator and entrepreneur. My colleague Walter Derzko in . . . → Read More: Innovating in the eternal downturn]]> http://designdialogues.com/innovating-in-the-eternal-downturn/feed/ 0 Values integrity: Leadership means keeping it real http://designdialogues.com/values-integrity-leadership-means-keeping-it-real/ http://designdialogues.com/values-integrity-leadership-means-keeping-it-real/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:53:50 +0000 Designdialogues http://redesignresearch.com/dialogues/?p=229 One of the central distinctions in the US presidential election that I’ve seen is that of the candidate’s integrity with their stated and perceived virtues. Barack Obama has led an exemplary campaign, and unbiased observers (of which I cannot really claim to be) would notice that he has maintained a consistent focus on several distinct . . . → Read More: Values integrity: Leadership means keeping it real]]> http://designdialogues.com/values-integrity-leadership-means-keeping-it-real/feed/ 0 OFF + ON http://designdialogues.com/off-on/ http://designdialogues.com/off-on/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:18:55 +0000 Designdialogues http://redesignresearch.com/dialogues/?p=170 UK’s Trendwatching gives us OFF=ON. Everything offline takes on characteristics of the online (esp Web 2.0) world. Indeed this is a trend many of us have pushed with clients overly investing their brands in one medium/world or the other, but not both effectively. The primary vector in their article is mapping online features, design, and . . . → Read More: OFF + ON]]> http://designdialogues.com/off-on/feed/ 0