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Management issues for design businesses To win through with clients, designers need to master future trends, communicate their ideas with the maximum clarity, do good research, and also closely follow developments in innovation and marketing In new products and services, an orientation to realism and to engineering in its broadest sense will ensure that design's answers are substantive, not superficial IT is a wonderful thing – but in certain conditions, it can desensitise Even in his late seventies, the late American graphics giant Paul Rand did working days at the most energetic pace. For creatives everywhere, he remains an example A very conservative approach to innovation The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future The UK if everything was nearly half as much bigger A UK that's 41 per cent more innovative will not be simple to construct, but will be a radically different kind of place ‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned' A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings Flight is one of man’s greatest achievements. Let’s challenge the greens and officials who want to snuff it out An engaging tale, packed with myths Christian Salmon’s book rightly notes the increasing use of narrative in modern life, but his ‘anti-capitalist’ instincts get in the way of understanding why Interview on innovation and the UK general election The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico shows the need to think big in undersea robots and every kind of technological innovation. British politicians, wake up! The defects of business models New ways of fleecing customers are no substitute for the hard graft of research, development and successful technological innovation Election 2010: question everything on innovation! This article explores the roots of Britain's current neglect of scientific and technological innovation, and calls for the creation of new industries for the twenty-first century Sights and insights from Mumbai and Kerala How the state is a roadblock to progress in innovation Obsessed with red tape, visionless governments are holding back the kind of big and risky developments society needs Do we need a more venturesome economy? In the world economy, R&D, laboratories and national competitiveness aren’t everything – but they count for more than Amar Bhidé suggests |
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