The Governance of Design – How the Europeans Make Design Happen

In the world of design, it is often the many forms of interaction between manufacturers and designers that foster the complete model for pushing the boundries of new product development. But how? 

In today’s world of rapid progress and technological change, it is exactly as described in Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence and more specifically the models described in The Governance Of Design Alliances as, the Italian’s have the model and just as the French, Portuguese, Spanish and most of Europe have had since the beginning of the Renaissance.

                               

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When Do Firms Undertake R&D By Investing In New Ventures?

When design plus R&D really get moving, it’s risk that firms are faced with: risk to show validity, risk to prove efficacy, and of course risk to scale with the latter being the largest concern of investor confidence. Is there a way to mitigate this?

Referred to in When Do Firms Undertake R&D By Investing In New Ventures? with the most success coming from areas where weak intellectual property protection and where complementary distribution capability creates the capability for design success. The data and statistical sampling of industries and functional capabilities indicate even further correlations between design functions and R&D success.

                               

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What is the Key to Innovation Disruption: Design Arbitrage – Here’s How

It’s quite clear in Jumpstarting Innovation - Using Disruption to Your Advantage the mechanisms that are used in the conversion of understanding in R&D to utilization in specific functional areas: Design Arbitrage. 

  Within the community of Jazz musicians the idea of interpretative resonance and as specified in Creativity and the Agile Mind: A Multi-Disciplinary Study we see the underpinnings of the disruptive model in action. More specifically through multiple examples in articles written in newspapers such as the Financial Times: Generating a Disruptive Idea: Unexpected Ideas Have Fewer Competitors and well seen in the ideas of Orbital Resonance or more than likely, industry conferences.   

                               

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