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 [...]

    interview
    interview

    here’s an interview I did with Rik Wuts and Andre Weenink as part of their Klatergoud project: 18 minutes Klatergoud #1 from Rik Wuts on Vimeo.

    Some first insights on service design
    Some first insights on service design

    Based on one of the tracks at the DMI academic conference in Paris this April, the latest issue of the Design Management Review (which is a special issue on service design) ,and an earlier hunch on the relevance of BDI to service design and vice versa, I will share with you some of the insights [...]

    dmi conference summary
    dmi conference summary

    There’s another nice summary of the DMI paris conference at molecular’s blog, by Brian Gillespie. Go see!

    defining the designer of 2015
    defining the designer of 2015

    here is a nice survey for you all to take part in. It will sharpen your mind with regards to the role of design and designers in the future. The survey is initiated by AIGA (the american BNO) and Adobe. Results will be posted by june 2008 under the same link.

    guest post by Jan Buijs
    guest post by Jan Buijs

    Here’s what prof. Dr. Jan Buijs wrote on the DMI conference. We spent the week with him, he’s a great guy and a veteran in all that concerns design, innovation, creativity and education. Summary Design Thinking DMI conferences Paris, April 2008 JB thoughts/ideas/concepts/…. after three days of Paris brain crunching. Both the academic conference on [...]

    Ask not what design thinking is, ask what it can do for your client.
    Ask not what design thinking is, ask what it can do for your client.

    Both at the academic and the business DMI conference in Paris this week speakers were very keen on defining design thinking. From an academic point of view, this is quite understandable: epistemologically (wow!) there’s some very interesting stuff happening when a designer/creative puts his teeth in a problem. (See many articles by Roger Martin on [...]

    DMI conference paris 2008

    I am in paris right now at the international DMI conference, writing this in my hotel room. I’ve been trying to find time to blog about it but somehow Eiffeltowers, finnish people, lunches, dinner parties and, er, the conference itself got in the way. So for now I will post the presentation I held at [...]

    creative company conference mindbytes

    as promised in my previous novella, some mindbytes from the creative company conference on april 1st 2008 in Amsterdam: John Howkins: Creativity needs freedom. We dream @ 8-12 hertz, we analyse @ 16-25 Hertz. The challenge is to manage the switch. People in creative sectors are 2-3 times more educated than in other sectors: creativity [...]

    creative company conference evaluation

    For a good conference you need a good topic, a good line up of speakers, a good conference format, a good venue and a good audience. The creative company conference that was held on april 1st 2008 in het Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, organised by Rudolf van Wezel of Bis Publishers and Ravi Naidoo of the [...]

    new article

    At the Design Management Institute‘s Academic Conference in Paris this april I will be presenting a paper on Brand Driven Innovation, co-authored by Christa van Gessel. It includes our latest insights gained from research and projects at Zilver. It builds on my 2005 dissertation, but goes much further in the specifics of BDI, including its [...]


    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
    Erik twitters:
    Erik is reading
    Image of Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
    Image of Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking
    Image of Managing as Designing
    Image of Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value
    Image of The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
    Image of The Fundamentals of Design Management
    Image of Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (deluxe version)
    my flickr pics
    IMG_1380 IMG_1373 IMG_1372 IMG_1366 IMG_1355 IMG_1324 IMG_1322 IMG_1316
    looking for something?