"Cover " -- "Zum Inhalt / Zu den Herausgebern " -- "Titel " -- "Vorwort zur 2. Auflage " -- "Inhaltsverzeichnis " -- "Einleitung: Wo ist das Problem? " -- "Teil 1: Mit Design Thinking erst zum Problem und dann zur Lösung " -- "1.1 Was ist Design Thinking " -- "1.2 Wie wird Design Thinking...

This paper analyzes processes and effects of ICT enabled innovation in the Dutch design sector. Although the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is considered as vital in the design sector, little is known about whether and how ICTs affect the firm performance of small...

The constructions - a branch that is in close agreement with the overall evolution of Romanian economy - are confronted with the same hardships from a fiscal viewpoint, and not only that, as the whole economic activity from Romania. In the period following the year 1990, the business environment...

After the year 1989 Romania faced an unpreceded intensification of the legislative activity. But what worries the most is not the great number of normative acts, but their imperfection. Being unsufficiently elaborated, after their coming in operation they were modified and completed by other...

Why Design? Why Now? -- Realizing the Potential of Design -- Qualities of Effective Design Organizations -- The Centralized Partnership -- Roles and Team Composition -- Recruiting and Hiring -- Developing the Team: Professional Growth and Managing People -- Creating a Design Culture --...

This paper characterizes the class of communication networks for which, in any environment (utilities and beliefs), every incentive-compatible social choice function is (partially) implementable. Among others, in environments with either common and independent beliefs and private values or a bad...