Posts Tagged ‘design’
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 [...]

brand driven innovation presentation
brand driven innovation presentation

Here’s a presentation that summarises the ideas behind Brand Driven Innovation and provides a concrete 4 step plan for action, including many examples. The presentation was held for a group of French CEO’s of a large mutual insurance fund. I find myself thinking and talking a lot these days about what it takes for an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]


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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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