Latest interview is with Jacob Holm, Managing Director of Fritz Hansen A/S. Jacob Holm Holds a MA in economics from the University of Copenhagen.
Jacob’s career spans positions at several of Denmark’s leading corporations, including Carlsberg, Carlsberg France, Foss A/S , Executive Vice-President at ISS A/S and ISS Inc. and Managing Director at Saatchi & Saatchi A/S, Denmark.
Board memberships: Chairman INDEX: 2005, Hans Just A/S and Danish Design Centre.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of Jacob Holm on your right side.
I am very proud to introduce our latest interview, with Simona Maschi, Associate Professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. For the past 10 years, Simona Maschi has designed future scenarios and experiences of people everyday life. She is interested in new design solutions that are attractive to people and that motivate companies towards a more sustainable future. Simona is also a Lecturer at the Politecnico University in Milan and she has studied and worked in Europe and USA. Furthermore she just got married last week and will soon be moving to Copenhagen, Denmark.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of Simona Maschi on your right side.
CPH127 is heavily involved in covering the INDEX: Views Summit in Copenhagen underway right now. I am doing video interviews with the attendees and the two other founders, Hans Henrik and Magnus, is documenting all that’s happening over at the INDEX: Views blog.
When I have the time I take some photos too, and so do Hans Henrik and the official photographers for INDEX: - you can see these at a Flickr Group we have made for the purpose. Please add your comments to the photos, we’d love some feedback.
Latest interview is with John L. Petersen, president and founder of The Arlington Institute a Washington, DC area research institute, is a futurist, who specializes in scenario design, wild cards (big surprise events), and developing new technologies and capabilities for anticipating futures more effectively. He is the author of two well-known books in the futures sector dealing with trends and wild cards and travels widely speaking on a variety of future-oriented topics.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of John L. Petersen on your right side.
The latest interview is with Søren Merit, a danish business developer and former director at the Danish Design Centre.
Søren has experienced the limitations of working with traditional analytical quantitative methods in increasingly competitive and qualitatively oriented business environments. He therefore started looking for alternative approaches that are more in line with the present demands on industry.
Søren’s research finalised into the conclusion: Continued innovation in customer propositions and delivery of exceptional user experiences can only be developed if you apply new ways of working and enrol new competencies into the activities. He is presently finalising a book about business development based on ‘conceptual discovery’, to be published by Børsens Forlag in spring 2006. After heading the Danish Design Centre’s much acclaimed innovation programme – design:PARTNER – he is now working on a yet to be announced business initiative.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of Søren Merit on your right side.
The latest interview is with Uffe Elbaek, who is the principal for The Kaospilots (The Chaospilots). In addition, he has contributed as either chairman or member in a number of private and/or public initiatives within his field of interest, including: Chairman of the Development Foundation of the Danish Ministry of Culture, Chief Advisor for the National Competency Council, member of the board of directors for the Aarhus Festival, and chairman of the school and culture committee in the City of Aarhus. Uffe Elbaek has also participated in many international projects and published several books. Furthermore, he is a very frequent speaker in Denmark and abroad. Uffe Elbaek has received a number of awards for his work, lately the Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of Uffe Elbaek on your right side.
The second interview from the INDEX: Views Summit has just been uploaded, and this time it features Joong Yeal Choi, Head of Samsung Design Europe. Mr. Choi has studied industrial design and design management at Seoul National University and has been working for Samsung Electronics since 94. Mr. Choi shares his views on various subjects, primarily focused on design and innovation.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of Mr. Choi on your right side.
The first videointerview from the INDEX: Views Summit in Danish Design Centre has just been uploaded, and it’s featuring no less than Alan Webber, founding editor of Fast Company. Besides founding Fast Company Alan has worked as Editorial Director of the Harvard Business Review and lives a life highly influenced by design. His wife is a furniture designer, his son is a Web-site designer and his daughter is in architectural graduate school. Alan shares his views on where design is now and where he would predict it moving towards in the future.
Click here to see the interview. Just select the video by clicking the picture of Alan on your right side.
Last week we had Ralf Beuker’s weblog featured here as news-destination. This week it is the INDEX:Views weblog.
The weblog is produced for documentation purposes during the INDEX:Views Summit in Copenhagen – 26-28 of September.
Interesting for several reasons:
- The many daily posts will contain interesting stuff about a designprocess designed by The Idea Factory.
- The weblog will be the only window where it is possible to have a look, the only possible way where it’s possible to interact with some of the “Creative Leaders”
- Wednesday will be interesting – White smoke will be posted – suggested solution will see daylight.
- Interesting because this will be a true showcase on how weblogs can be used in a different way
Please join the conversation – here and there
The Views-section contains now a new interview. This time with Professor Ron Sanchez on how design fit’s into strategic management.
The interview is aprox. 13 minutes long.
How does design apply in to your own strategical planning?