DMI is offering a 20% discount to HOW subscribers for any DMI seminar or conference in June or July. Celebrate the arrival of summer by taking your career to the next level with one of these DMI seminars. Experience three days of learning, inspiration, community, and sharing at DMI's Brand/Design Conference. Offer is valid for all current HOW magazine subscribers only for the sessions listed below.
Seminars
| Strategies that Transform Brands |
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with Scott Lerman
June 10, 2008
Cincinnati, USA
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| Scott Lerman |
Is your company’s brand clear and true? Mergers, acquisitions, leadership changes, new markets, shifting demographics, and time itself can derail even the strongest brand. Scott Lerman has led some of the most important brand programs of the past decade. In this workshop, he provides real world examples of the transformation of corporate brands—giving participants a rare insider’s view.
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| Designing Future Competitive Advantage |
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with Richard Green
June 19-20, 2008
New York City, USA
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| Richard Green |
Organizations worldwide are struggling to transform themselves in a world turned upside down. Creating competitive advantage will breakthrough thinking, leadership, and design management—skills that design professionals are uniquely qualified to deliver. Designing Future Competitive Advantage will introduce design professionals to organizational concepts and theory, and provide tools to gain influence in your organization. |
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| Managing Creative Staff |
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with Leonard Glick
June 19-20, 2008
Denver, USA
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| Leonard Glick |
How can you be a more effective manager for your designers? You must be able to understand, encourage, and cultivate not only your group’s skills, but also your own. Learn how to tackle many of the common and classic issues of managing others, as well as some of the specific challenges faced by those who manage designers through the popular DMI seminar, Managing Creative Staff. You’ll learn how to motivate and develop designers, give useful feedback, and understand company culture. |
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| The Top Ten Issues Design Managers are Facing in 2008 |
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with Peter Phillips
June 26-27
Boston, USA
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| Peter Phillips |
Design managers worldwide are facing a number of issues that are surprisingly common. Over the last two years, DMI has been offering Making the In-house Design Function a Strategic Competency, a private customized workshop for in-house corporate design groups. Peter L. Phillips, has drawn on the outcomes of these workshops to compile a list of the ten most commonly reported obstacles to the successful management of corporate design groups. As a result of meeting and interacting with the staff of numerous in-house design departments, he has discovered how to overcome these obstacles and which corrective techniques are working and which are not. |
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| Integrating Design, Technology and Business for Rapid, People-driven Innovation |
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with Jonathan Dalton &
Stokes Jones
July 17-18, 2008
Chicago, USA
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Seminar at the HOW rate
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| Stokes Jones |
The topic of sustainable or “green” design is of increasing urgency to companies involved in product development. In fact, recent surveys have shown that key customer segments are willing to pay more in order to buy greener products. This new seminar, taught by two leaders of frog design’s sustainable design initiative, will address the fundamental issues of sustainable design and introduce a broad range of frameworks and concepts.
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| The Trendmaster's Guide to Great Design |
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with Robyn Waters &
Gary Springer
October 27-28, 2008
Boston, USA
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Trends are signposts and indicators pointing to what’s going on in the hearts and minds of your customers. This DMI seminar provides a practical and fun exploration of the trend tracking process that simplifies and demystifies the art of trend. Learn how good trend research, effectively translated, can become the platform for great design, connecting to the hearts and minds of your customers.
Due to unforeseeable circumstances, the June 5-6 (Chicago) session of this seminar has been cancelled. We would like to extend the HOW discount to the fall (Boston) session of this seminar. |
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Brand/Design 20 Conference
Registration
To receive your 20% discount you must click the appropriate registration link on this page or register by fax using the PDF form for this promotion. We strongly encourage registering at least two weeks prior to the event start date. The Institute will send you an e-mail confirming
your registration. For international wire transfers, please
contact DMI for account information. If you experience registration problems please
fax or call in your registration.
Via Fax or Mail
Download and print this PDF
form. Mail or fax to DMI with the appropriate fee:
The Design Management Institute
101 Tremont Street, Suite 300
Boston, MA 02108 USA
Telephone: 617-338-6380
Fax: 617-338-6570
Cancellation Policies
All cancellations or substitutions must be
received in writing.
Seminars
More than one week before seminar:
DMI will deduct a US$100 admin charge and refund or credit the remaining fee.
One week or less before seminar:
No refunds or credit.
In the unlikely event that it becomes necessary
to cancel a seminar, DMI will issue either a full refund or a full
credit towards a future seminar, but will not be responsible for
any charges incurred by the registrant, including hotel and airline
fees.
Brand/Design 20 Conference
Until May 14
We will deduct a $150 administrative charge and refund or credit
the remaining fee.
May 15 - May 29
We will deduct a $150 administrative charge and credit the remaining
fee towards a future conference (within a year) or a new (no renewals)
full price membership.
After May 29
No refunds or credit.
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