Jul 30, 2019
Customer is king. Especially to designers. We would do everything for them. We fight for what they want and need. But is that always a good idea?
I would argue that it is sometimes self-destructive. That it is against what customers actually want.
Find out more in this mini MBA episode in which we discuss the...
Jul 23, 2019
This week, I published the Business Design Guide, which introduces business design as a design discipline. In this episode, I present the outline of the guide and share a few stories from my career that led me to write this guide.
I took one topic from the guide and presented it in more detail. What most budding...
Jul 16, 2019
John Oswald is a business design pioneer. He was the first business designer at fjord where he defined its role and built the team. He is currently a managing director at a strategic design consultancy Method London. With John, we discussed:
the early days and evolution of the business design,
five patterns of...
Jul 9, 2019
Imagine you are running a hotel. Who would you rather have as a customer? High value but one-time visitor or an average customer who will keep coming back for many years? It depends, right?
Lifetime Value (LTV) is a concept that can help us determine the business value of our customers and with that understand:
who is...
Jul 2, 2019
When you open a yoga studio, will you hire yoga instructor full-time or will you find a contractor? Will you sign a one year lease for your studio that you can equip the way you want or will you try to rent a pop-up store that gives you more flexibility?
These are all design decisions that entrepreneurs and designers...