brand driven innovation where branding, innovation and design meet

    Design the new Business Trailer

    Design the new Business Trailer

    As I wrote about in the previous post, this summer my company Zilver innovation and 6 students from the Strategic Product Design master at the TU Delft are making a documentary, entitled ‘Design the new Business‘. And we are making progress!! Check out the trailer here, and let us know what you think on www.designthenewbusiness.com [...]

    Design the new Business

    Design the new Business

    This summer my company Zilver innovation and 6 students from the Strategic Product Design master at the TU Delft have embarked on quite a little adventure. We are making a documentary, entitled ‘Design the new Business‘. The idea of the documentary was born when I had the opportunity to host 6 of the best students [...]

    Customer Journey Mapping

    Customer Journey Mapping

    In virtually every branding, service design or innovation strategy project Zilver does, customer journey mapping plays a central role. It’s a highly versatile framework that invites project teams to ask the right questions and find the right answers. It plays a role in several points in the project: 1. at the beginning, to assess what [...]

    Guest post: BDI Book review

    Guest post: BDI Book review

    This is a guest post written by Rik Wuts, originally published at his blog Klatergoud. A couple of weeks back I was a guest at the launch of Brand Driven Innovation – written by Erik Roscam Abbing (who, way back when, was my teacher and later mentor at university) about, you guessed it: brand driven innovation. [...]

    book launch symposium

    book launch symposium

    On Wednesday October 27th 2010 the official launch symposium for Erik’s book ‘brand driven innovation’ was held at the faculty of Industrial Design at the TU Delft. It was a very special, inspiring and exciting day, with around 150 great people attending: business partners, clients, friends, family, and colleagues from academia and practice. A great [...]

    booklaunch october 27th

    booklaunch october 27th

    Since the spring of 2009 I’ve been working on my book ‘Brand Driven Innovation’ for AVA Academia. It has been a great adventure to write this book, and I am very proud that finally the work is done. It’s time to celebrate! Therefore I am organizing a launch symposium/party in the afternoon of Wednesday October [...]

    human centred branding as platform for innovation
    human centred branding as platform for innovation

    This blog hasn’t gotten much of my attention lately but that doesn’t mean I have been idle. To the contrary, I’ve been extremely productive this first half of 2009. I’ve just found other ways to express myself than through this blog. One of these is twitter, where you can follow me. I’ve met some great [...]

    creative company conference 2009 report
    creative company conference 2009 report

    The Creative Company Conference is an event that has the potential to become one of the leading gatherings of creative minds in Europe, if it will have the courage to harness the energy and creativity of its attendees. Yesterday I attended the second edition of the Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam. Those who know me [...]

    7daysinmylife.com
    7daysinmylife.com

    Brands give guidance to innovation if they are rooted in a thorough understanding of the stakeholders of that brand. That’s why I’m more and more involved in researching these stakeholders in a way that leads to actionable, inspiring and authentic insights. In effect, this comes down to digging deep into the lives of both people [...]

    creative company conference 2009
    creative company conference 2009

    I found last year’s Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam a very worthwhile experience. An energetic bunch of speakers, a great venue, a pleasant crowd and sufficient new ideas and insights to last me, well, a month at least . So I’m looking forward to attending this year’s edition as well. It takes place on Tuesday [...]

    new brand relationship model
    new brand relationship model

    Based on a friday afternoon twitter discussion with Ralf Beuker and Patrick Lerou plus some recent experiences with clients and previous discussions with Guido Stompff and Ralf, I decided to add some depth to the model that we @Zilver have been using for a while now. The model basically depicts our way of looking at [...]

    innovation strategies, concept cars and bionic jellyfish
    innovation strategies, concept cars and bionic jellyfish

    For my Module Coordinator job at Eurib’s design management program I invited Festo‘s manager of corporate design, Markus Fischer as a guest lecturer. Markus does a nice job of managing the corporate identity of a this large (12.800 FTE) German multinational, but that’s not why I invited him. He also manages Festo’s Bionic Learning Network. [...]

    design as strategic resource
    design as strategic resource

    Just before my very well deserved 2 week christmas break I held a presentation for Trespa international‘s executive board and their top 50 managers on the significance of design as a strategic resource to build brands. I’ve been involved with Trespa for the past 10 years and the way they’ve used design to boost their [...]

    an open letter to design management students
    an open letter to design management students

    Dear student, You are lucky. You are studying design management. One of the most exciting, inspiring, relevant and rich fields of study one can imagine. You have tremendously rich resources to support you: books, blogs, conferences, teachers and practitioners. Hell, if you’re lucky, you even have a great job lined up for you in the [...]

    Zilver client wins two awards in one week!
    Zilver client wins two awards in one week!

    Our client NLISIS (pronounced Analysis) has won both a Design Management Europe Award and a Dutch Design Award last week. With the DME award NLISIS was recognised for their outstanding use of design management for a start up company. Zilver had the honour to both develop the NLISIS brand and their design strategy right form [...]

    design management review article
    design management review article

    Christa van Gessel and I wrote an article for this fall’s Future of Design Leadership edition of the Design Management Institute‘s  Design Management Review . It’s partly based on our previously published article for DMI’s Paris ’08 Academic conference but it contains some nice new stuff as well. Download it here.


    about this blog
    this is Erik Roscam Abbing's blog on topics relating to the synergy between branding, innovation and design. Erik is a consultant (www.zilverinnovation.com), teacher (www.io.tudelft.nl), and frequent speaker on the topic of Brand Driven Innovation. He is also the author of the book by the same title, to appear in autumn 2010 at www.avabooks.ch. For inquiries, contact erik at erik at zilverinnovation.com
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