Ebook: Designing: Business and Management

This book inquires into how design relates and contributes to core issues and problems of business and management. It positions designing business as an emerging field of design research and design practice and offers a first clarification of this concept in theory and practice. Its internationally renowned contributors approach designing business from many different disciplines to trace shifts in management, design and organizational developments that point to designing business as a higher order design problem. Authors offer different approaches to design thinking and discuss educational challenges in design, business and management schools. They review methods for teaching but also highlight important qualities of creative, emerging processes that dominate organizational life. Together, the chapters advance our understanding of how design research, design theories and design practices give shape to business and businesses. Moreover, the book provides an initial outline of the boundaries of this new field while it points to challenges ahead. Rather than presenting a conclusion, the book encourages the reader to engage in the conversation.