Design is acknowledged as a key tool for enhancing competitiveness and economic success in the face of rapidly changing markets and increased global competitiveness. Businesses increasingly recognize its importance and utilize it to achieve business objectives and thus increase competiveness....

How do designers engage with trends? How are they informed, and how do they inform trends? This paper engages with the literature, design thinking, theory and practice on trend forecasting. It investigates how designers use trend forecasting in their design process and how they in turn, embody...

"An updated theory of power for the twenty-first century, through upgrading the concept of hegemony-understanding the importance of passive consent, the complexity of political interests, and the structural force of technology."

Organizational learning has been widely acknowledged as holding the key for companies to survive and prosper and has, in recent years, gained currency in construction management research. Much research centred upon the study of organizational learning as a process, as well as the view and...