The Handbook of Design Management - by Rachel Cooper & Sabine Junginger & Thomas Lockwood (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The management of design has emerged as central to the operational and strategic options of any successful organization. The Handbook of Design Management presents a state-of-the-art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and future.

The Handbook covers the breadth of principles, methods and practices that shape design management across the different design disciplines. These theories and practices extend from the operational to the strategic, from the product to the organization.

Bringing together leading international scholars, the Handbook provides a guide to the latest research in the field. It also documents the shifts that have been taking place both in management and in design which have highlighted the value of design thinking and design education to organizations.

Presenting the first systematic overview of the subject - and offering a wide range of examples, insights and analysis - the Handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in design and management, as well as for design practitioners and professional managers.

About the Author

EDITORS:

Rachel Cooper OBE is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, UK. She is Chair of the Lancaster institute for the Contemporary Arts, and also a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art. She has written several books, including Designing Sustainable Cities and The Handbook of Wellbeing and the Environment. She is also series editor of the Bloomsbury series Design for Social Responsibility, which covers designing for sustainability, inclusivity, service design, sport, health, transport and policy. She is founding editor of The Design Journal and also founding President of the European Academy of Design.

Sabine Junginger leads the Competency Center for Design and Management at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland. She has been a fellow at the Hertie School of Governance, Germany since 2009, and is also a visiting professor at both Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Jiangnan University in China. She is the co-editor of Designing Business and Management (2016), and author of Transforming Public Services by Design: Re-Orienting Services, Organizations and Policies around People. She holds an MDes. in Communication Planning and Information Design and a PhD in Design, both from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, USA.

Thomas Lockwood is the founding partner of Lockwood Resource, an international consulting and recruiting firm specialised on Design, UX and Innovation Leadership. He is the editor of Design Thinking, Corporate Creativity and Building Design Strategy, and works on advancing research about building cultures of innovation.