This study explores the differentiated properties of service design in the context of the final value pursued by this methodology, avoiding the interpretation of pending issues to which service design is applied. First, the following were identified as the core properties of service design,...

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...

"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...

Learn the skills you must master to assume leadership roles-creative directors, art directors, and advertising managers-on creative teams and in integrated branding campaigns for corporate clients. This book compares and contrasts the skill sets and responsibilities of creatives with those of...

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...