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From the October 07, 2010, 11:59 Pacific Time to the November 08, 2010, 09:59 Pacific time the presentation that was made from this blog's masters thesis is competing at the World's best World's best presentation contest '10 by SlideShare. Here is the link to the presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/vizuarna/m-savic-mbathesisv2-5417630I would like to invite you to view the presentation below or at the given link. If you like it, please vote for me.And please vote below the presentation at the SlideShare site by clicking on the "thumbs up" icon. You will be asked to register with SlideShare (or log in if you are a member already), so few clicks will be necessary. I really appreciate your efforts.[slideshare id=5417630&doc=msavic-mba-thesis-v2-101011174452-phpapp01]...

13 October, 2010 /

The masters thesis of this blog—titled Corporate Design Strategy and Branding: the role of Design Management in developing the Corporate Identity—was presented at the Faculty of Economics on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 11:00 CET in the small conference room P-201....

19 September, 2010 /

Design thinking is knowing without reasoning and as such is the most disruptive and unsystematic form of thinking. By definition, design thinking is the productive combination of analytical thinking and intuitive thinking. But design thinking will be effective in your company only if strategic planning is successfully connected with execution of products, services, and communications. ...

13 August, 2010 /

For design as such, we know that there are some advantages of outsourcing design, such as: the breadth of experience, objective opinion, bringing challenging perspectives for problem solving, and producing focused solutions. An in-house design team advantages are: that they are active stakeholders in an organisation, focused experience, shared sense of purpose, influencing companies design culture, and easier access to decision-makers and power holders (Best, 2006). Both options have disadvantages too. It is pretty clear, although the example goes from using design, that in corporate identity and brand architecture development the optimal solution will always be a combination of internal and external resources. Source: Best, Kathryn. 2006. Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation. AVA Publishing SA. 215 p....

03 April, 2010 /

Corporate design is an instrument for transformation and, at the same time, a guarantee of continuing corporate recognition (Van Cauwenberge, 2008). And that could be developed only if the proper corporate identity audit has been made.A corporate identity audit has been developed in 9 steps. These 9 steps are: + step 1: select the audit team; + step 2: asses key elements in the corporate identity; + step 3: determine who should be interviewed; + step 4: conduct audit interviews; + step 5: audit corporate identity factors; + step 6: summarize salient points; + step 7: determine the options for change; + step 8: present the audit results; + step 9: use the audit data to improve the corporate identity (Ollins and Selame, 2002). If the corporate identity audit process is to be taken as an...

26 March, 2010 /

There are some proposals from different authors. It seems that the proposals depend on the point of view of the authors. If authors write from the perspective of corporate consultants, then they develop a rough process that uses the business language and it should appeal to the boards of the corporations.Such a business proposal of a process approach in developing a corporate identity or other design fields to gain a competitive advantage usually include different steps:articulating the firm's competitive strategy;design requirements and resources;ensuring communication among design and other functions;the design brief;measuring performance (Olson et al., 2000). It is somehow obvious that designers themselves need some different and more specific information.The specific and different information could be presented in complex models or could be put in simple laws of corporate design that are the constitution of the...

20 March, 2010 /