Posted by Ned Colville on January 15, 2010
1. “Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower” (Al Ries)
2. “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world” (John Le Carre)
3. “The motto of the ivory tower intellectual might be: “It may work in practice, but will it work in theory?” (Mardy Grothe)
4. “When they come down from their ivory towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.” (Logan Pearsall Smith)
5. “If this is an ivory tower, then I must be in the basement!” (Todd Ellis Van Hoosear)
Borrowed with pride from all over the place.
Posted by Rosa Wilkinson on April 30, 2009
We like to getting out to new places and sharing our thinking. One of our Senior Consultants, Kamil Michlewski will on his way to Austria soon for the 4th International DOM Conference: Creating Desired Futures.
Organised by Design-Organization-Media Research Laboratory (DOM), the conference will be held in Linz from 14-17 May. It aims to explore how design – not understood as a way of form shaping but as a way of creative thinking different from analysis – may add value in solving complex business problems.
Kamil will be speaking on the theory of management and design – if you would like to learn more about the conference please visit the DOM website: http://www.domresearchlab.com/content/4th-international-dom-conference-may-14-17-2009-creating-desired-futures
Posted by Rosa Wilkinson on February 20, 2009
It’s nice to be appreciated, and we’re particularly pleased when others recommend our thinking.
One of our Senior Consultants, Kamil Michlewski, has recently had his academic work referred to on the website of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.
If you’d like to read more about the ‘Culture of Design’ click here: http://design.case.edu/what/
