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Research: Past Articles

Integrated Design Strategy Management: Challenges & Opportunities

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Inspired by a lively roundtable discussion of 35 design management professionals, Michael Eckersley, PhD, Principal, HumanCentered, shares his observations on design’s increasing strategic importance worldwide – and probes design managers to ask how their influence might be enlarged.
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In-house Creative Services vs. Total Outsourcing

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Lynn Brandli presents two perspectives on the creative services team:  are they “core competency” or “non-core?”  And, how do successful corporations justify their assessments?
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Consumers Are Not Humans, but Humans Are Consumers

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Rita Armstrong

An advocate for “Human-Centered Design Research,” Andy Schechterman, PhD, believes in completing “deep dive” human-centered research prior to any design activity to yield an untapped opportunity for strategic planning for brands, products, services and environments.
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