Dec 9, 2020
In this special episode, Alen shares his latest essay on the dilemma between business and design. Many designers are afraid that business literacy will lead them to compromise their values and principles.
Alen shares why this is a false dilemma and why in reality the relationship between the two is...
Nov 18, 2020
In the latest Business Design Jam, Alen is joined by two d.MBA mentors, Jo Roberts (Lead business designer at Designit) and Andreea Strachină (business designer expert at PWC IXDS). They talked about:
circular business models and how to apply them to service businesses,
how to apply outcome-based pricing to...
Jun 9, 2020
Competitor research is important. It helps us learn about our competitors so we can make better decisions. Decisions that lead to more value created for our customers and our organization.
However, when we think about our competitors, we are all making a fundamental logical mistake. We mistake our direct...
May 12, 2020
In the new Business Design Jam, Alen and Franz, discuss the latest business design stories:
how a Michelin 3-star restaurant is not only surviving but even thriving during the coronavirus lockdown,
how Universal Studios pioneered a new way to premier movies,
and how Airbnb forgot that it is servicing two groups of...
Mar 24, 2020
Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and a professor at Columbia Business School. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking.
She wrote Discovery-Driven...