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Finnish cities are undergoing rapid transformations due to technological advancements and shifts in demographic structures. The increasing diversity necessitates a more inclusive approach to digital governance in response to widening societal disparities. This paper proposes a model for developing citizen-friendly services by integrating empathic design with design management, employing benchmarking and systematic literature review methods. Initially, a preliminary benchmarking of five major Finnish cities—Helsinki, Espoo, Turku, Tampere, and Oulu—was conducted to map the prevailing challenges in the strategic application of design principles. A systematic literature review then follows to identify specific challenges in city governance through the lens of design management. Consequently, this study proposes a model that elucidates the connections between the identified challenges and various levels of design management. The proposed model facilitates the strategic decision-making process by incorporating empathic considerations and ensuring the effective allocation of resources to address multiple levels of managerial challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Built environment and infrastructure designs are produced in complex information systems. Managing this complexity poses a significant challenge; data scarcity and bias are substantial obstacles. This paper addresses the gap in data availability by mining building information modeling (BIM) meta-databases. Two case study databases are studied and assessed through various analytical tools, including network modeling, statistics, entropy, fast Fourier transform (fft), and information constraint (IC). Through analytical and empirical investigation, insights into the morphology, characteristics, failures, causes, and trajectories of design information systems are derived, showcasing that complex systems can be retroactively deciphered and predicted to a certain extent. This study acknowledges design errors as social and psychological phenomena and proposes behavioristic and systemic remedies for addressing design faults. Applying design quality-control management tools, risk assessment, and responsibility allocation becomes feasible, enabling proactive and real-time corrective actions. This research contributes a theoretical framework and practical methodologies as well as the application of data analysis tools to design quality control management, addressing both the information gap and the complexity challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design coordination in hydropower projects is both complex and challenging due to their scale, environmental impact, or technological complexity. The current understanding of how to effectively enhance it is limited and often contradictory. This research explores five key conditions impacting design coordination: technical conditions, digital design capabilities, designers' dynamic capabilities, partnering, and incentives. Utilizing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on 28 large-scale hydropower project cases, this study identifies five distinct configurations that facilitate high-level design coordination, which can be grouped into three types: capability-centric, stakeholder-centric, and a hybrid approach combining both capability and stakeholder focus. The findings reveal that both high- and low-level design coordination outcomes can be achieved through various configurations of these conditions. This study advances the understanding of design coordination by adopting a configurational perspective and contributes to the literature on the adoption of emerging technologies and practices. Practical Applications: Design coordination in hydropower projects is complex but critical because it can influence the project's feasibility, environmental harmony, and social acceptance. This research explores five key conditions impacting design coordination among project stakeholders: technical conditions, digital design capabilities, designers' dynamic capabilities, partnering, and incentives. The results of this study offer significant managerial suggestions to project managers in the hydropower industry. First, enhancing design coordination by investing in improving technical conditions may be valuable but is only useful when combined with strengthening designers' digital design capabilities and other strategies, such as developing partnering relationships with stakeholders to engage them in coordination. Even then, the effect may be marginal. This finding suggests that to fulfill the desired effectiveness when using new technologies, managers of design companies should pay attention to hiring capable personnel and improving organizational capabilities for developing partnerships with stakeholders. Secondly, achieving high-performance design coordination seems easier than avoiding low-performance design coordination because applying a few high-level strategies may result in high-level design coordination. The finding implies that even strengthening designers' dynamic capabilities can achieve high-level design coordination given underperforming technical conditions. Managers should be more optimistic when improving design coordination even if financial support for advanced technologies is lacking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the initial problems faced by young interior designers is to make a creative pattern to draw potential consumers’ attention. Their belief in the creative pattern should fit consumers’ expectations. This study scrutinized the relationship between young interior designers and potential consumers about both expectation, designers’ capital, and designers’ strategy to cap-ture the pattern in the design market. To this end, young interior designers (n=100) and potential design consumers (n=100) were recruited as respon-dents. Multiple linear regression and ordinal logisic regression were applied. The data analysis result demonstrated young designers’ marketing patterns to draw potential consumers’ attention. A correlation was found between young designers and design consumers. The expectation, capital, and strategy of designers were found to be interrelated by 48.1%, while those of consumers were interrelated by 28.6%. The research variables, which are designer capital, designer strategy and the two respondent groups, were found to have an impact on the expectation by 94.5%. This study concludes that young designers have a marketing pattern to draw poten-tial consumers’ attention. It showed a relationship between designers’ and consumers’ expectations, designers’ capital or information received by consumers, and designers’ strategy. This study may serve as a refer-ence for young designers’ behaviors when entering the market design.

The Integrated Design Process is one of the most recommended methods to deliver Zero-Energy Buildings as it brings together all the stakeholders in the early moments of design, allowing performance optimisation and synergies among the different approaches and expertise. The practice of this design process is complex and difficult because it aims to integrate evolving decisions by all parties. It has been widely studied from the perspective of the process itself and its efficacy. However, the human side or how to manage the collaboration of the different stakeholders in the design development for a Zero Energy Building is unknown. To address this research gap this study is focused on the synergies among the consultants and the purpose behind this kind of building. Through the analysis of the design process and eight interviews with the main stakeholders of a Zero Energy Building at the National University of Singapore, three human factors are identified as critical for the success of an Integrated Design Process: client leadership, acting as the engine of the project; trust among the team, acting as the glue during the process, and focus on the goals that sustains the effort and allows the continuity in time. Although the results are limited to a case study, they can serve as a guide for clients and consultants to implement optimised Integrated Design Processes for future Zero Energy Buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globally, design management and its related concepts have attracted much attention from experts and scholars in design, sociology, economics and other related industries, and the design policy research involved in design management is gradually becoming one of the core elements for countries to promote the development of the fashion industry, condense the characteristics of the regional fashion culture and build fashion centers. Looking back at history, economic development, capital accumulation and national development are all closely linked to the prosperity of the textile industry. The prosperity of the textile industry has undoubtedly provided a solid foundation for the rise of the fashion industry. Although there are differences in the development paths and methods of the fashion industry in various countries, the active intervention and guidance of the fashion industry at the national level is a common theme, which is manifested in design management and policies. Take Britain as an example, the country has introduced a series of policies driven by official design organizations, which include strategic planning at the national level as well as policy measures proposed by industry associations, all of which have helped the fashion industry to become an important pillar of its economic development. As modern industry attaches great importance to design innovation and economic development, governments are gradually realizing the industrial benefits and economic value brought by design, and are committed to promoting research on the formulation and implementation of design industry policies. However, the formulation and improvement of design policy do not happen overnight, but through years or even decades of gradual evolution and optimization, which is is particularly obvious specially in fashion design, a unique economic field and cross-disciplines. In this paper, through combing the development of design policy and fashion industry in Britain, interpreting typical cases from a historical perspective, analyzing the logic between design policy and fashion industry, and summing up the historical experience and value of the contribution of design policy to the development of the regional fashion industry, the paper aims to provide a clear picture of the development of the fashion industry in Britain. Firstly, the design policy was placed in the context of design management for the corresponding analysis of design policy and the fashion industry in Britain. Secondly, the British fashion process was divided into four phases: germination, development, transformation, and renewal, so as to compare and analyze how the driving factors behind the fashion phenomena presented by the British fashion industry under the guidance of design policy and its leadership interacted with each other and formed synergy. Finally, the paper summarized the three stages of transformation and development of the British fashion industry and analyze the impact of design policy on each stage of transformation. It is hoped that the reconfirmation of historical samples will inspire design management research in the process of China’s fashion development, promote the integration and development of China’s design policy and fashion industry, and provide a model for the transformation of China’s fashion brands and the construction of the fashion consumer market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the initial problems faced by young interior designers is to make a creative pattern to draw potential consumers' attention. Their belief in the creative pattern should fit consumers' expectations. This study scrutinized the relationship between young interior designers and potential consumers about both expectation, designers' capital, and designers' strategy to capture the pattern in the design market. To this end, young interior designers (n=100) and potential design consumers (n=100) were recruited as respondents. Multiple linear regression and ordinal logisic regression were applied. The data analysis result demonstrated young designers' marketing patterns to draw potential consumers' attention. A correlation was found between young designers and design consumers. The expectation, capital, and strategy of designers were found to be interrelated by 48.1%, while those of consumers were interrelated by 28.6%. The research variables, which are designer capital, designer strategy and the two respondent groups, were found to have an impact on the expectation by 94.5%. This study concludes that young designers have a marketing pattern to draw potential consumers' attention. It showed a relationship between designers' and consumers' expectations, designers' capital or information received by consumers, and designers' strategy. This study may serve as a reference for young designers' behaviors when entering the market design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Design is recognized as a critical driving force of economic growth in China, shaped by its distinct political, economic and cultural history. However, documentation on Chinese design policies remains scarce. In this conversation, Dr Sylvia Xihui Liu, a distinguished researcher in design policy and design management from China, shares her invaluable experiences in influencing the development of China's national design innovation policies. She also discusses the tangible impact these policies have on design practitioners within the country and offers her perspectives on the differences between the United Kingdom and China in crafting creative policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design is a specific form of complex innovation that affects all areas of an organization's management. However, the essence of design is vague, and it is difficult to fully grasp the concept of design. Therefore, it is difficult to find criteria for determining its value. The problem of establishing a causal relationship between design value and user experience is addressed in this paper. The relationship between these two variables affects the importance of design in organizations and can be used to quantify the value of design. Indeed, based on the results of existing research, it is known that this term has many meanings, and it is necessary to reject the possibility of its total quantification. Much of the related research has focused on the area of user experience and customer value, while other related research has focused on design value, which cannot be measured directly but rather, for example, through system dynamic modelling. This approach, i.e., the use of a system dynamic model to determine the value of design, is still missing in the research literature.The main research method for determining the value of design is the experimental method, supported by other research methods: modelling and structured questioning. Inputs to the model, which represent the opinions of the company's managers on the design, are obtained through a board game that provides an attractive and easy-to-understand user interface for the research participants. The value of design is determined by using a sample case study that contains key variables according to the company's business model. The value of the design is calculated based on the indicator "design cost-effectiveness" over six years of the start-up company's business. The indicator is experimentally verified in a model with an identical structure and different scenarios concerning the involvement of design change in the economic development of the firm. This paper aims to use the gamified DVCG model as an innovative concept in business management through a case study. The contribution of the paper to science and practice is to provide experimentally validated evidence to help identify the areas where design investments are needed to make the most sense for the economics and management of the organization.

Design is a specific form of complex innovation that affects all areas of an organization’s management. However, the essence of design is vague, and it is difficult to fully grasp the concept of design. Therefore, it is difficult to find criteria for determining its value. The problem of establishing a causal relationship between design value and user experience is addressed in this paper. The relationship between these two variables affects the importance of design in organizations and can be used to quantify the value of design. Indeed, based on the results of existing research, it is known that this term has many meanings, and it is necessary to reject the possibility of its total quantification. Much of the related research has focused on the area of user experience and customer value, while other related research has focused on design value, which cannot be measured directly but rather, for example, through system dynamic modelling. This approach, i.e., the use of a system dynamic model to determine the value of design, is still missing in the research literature.The main research method for determining the value of design is the experimental method, supported by other research methods: modelling and structured questioning. Inputs to the model, which represent the opinions of the company’s managers on the design, are obtained through a board game that provides an attractive and easy-to-understand user interface for the research participants. The value of design is determined by using a sample case study that contains key variables according to the company’s business model. The value of the design is calculated based on the indicator “design cost-effectiveness” over six years of the start-up company’s business. The indicator is experimentally verified in a model with an identical structure and different scenarios concerning the involvement of design change in the economic development of the firm. This paper aims to use the gamified DVCG model as an innovative concept in business management through a case study. The contribution of the paper to science and practice is to provide experimentally validated evidence to help identify the areas where design investments are needed to make the most sense for the economics and management of the organization.

Built environment and infrastructure designs are produced in complex information systems. Managing this complexity poses a significant challenge; data scarcity and bias are substantial obstacles. This paper addresses the gap in data availability by mining building information modeling (BIM) meta-databases. Two case study databases are studied and assessed through various analytical tools, including network modeling, statistics, entropy, fast Fourier transform (fft), and information constraint (IC). Through analytical and empirical investigation, insights into the morphology, characteristics, failures, causes, and trajectories of design information systems are derived, showcasing that complex systems can be retroactively deciphered and predicted to a certain extent. This study acknowledges design errors as social and psychological phenomena and proposes behavioristic and systemic remedies for addressing design faults. Applying design quality-control management tools, risk assessment, and responsibility allocation becomes feasible, enabling proactive and real-time corrective actions. This research contributes a theoretical framework and practical methodologies as well as the application of data analysis tools to design quality control management, addressing both the information gap and the complexity challenge.

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Construction Design Management (DM) involves the coordination of design processes and activities to ensure quality project design, yet it involves many challenges. This study reports on a collaborative Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project with a Case Study Organization (CSO) that tackled several issues faced by construction design managers. Employing a design science research methodology (DSRM), qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with purposefully identified design managers uncovered real-world concerns around design co-ordination and performance monitoring. To address these concerns, a web-based design management prototype dashboard was developed using typical project data to aid in the management of design coordination, task prioritization, and reporting functionalities. The web-based Design Management prototype dashboard enhances design management productivity in construction firms by monitoring design production, assessing designer performance trends, and focusing on Technical Queries (TQs) and Requests for Information (RFIs). Digitalizing selected design management processes improves efficiency and productivity. The visual reporting of the dashboard enables design production monitoring at project and portfolio levels, assesses trends in designer performance, and maintains focus on TQs and RFIs. Demonstrating how web-based Design Management dashboards can enhance productivity, this study emphasizes practical solutions derived from employing a design science research methodology. The development and application of the web-based dashboard contribute to the growing evidence that employing design science research methodology in construction can yield tangible solutions to address real-world construction concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parametric Design can be considered as an approach that parameterizes Design knowledge, thus allowing for its manipulation as input for the generation of solution alternatives. This study discusses whether the Grasshopper 3D, parametric design software, can be characterized as a model for capturing and representing Design knowledge (Design Rationale) when compared with traditional gIBIS and QOC systems in terms of their syntax, representativeness of Design parameters, and information flow. The analysis reveals similarities in syntax, but highlights Grasshopper 3D in the final stages of ideation and initial stages of technical specification, in which it offers complementary potential to traditional systems. The study contributes to understanding the management and design of information in the design process and its optimized application for decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design is a specific form of complex innovation that affects all areas of an organization's management. However, the essence of design is vague, and it is difficult to fully grasp the concept of design. Therefore, it is difficult to find criteria for determining its value. The problem of establishing a causal relationship between design value and user experience is addressed in this paper. The relationship between these two variables affects the importance of design in organizations and can be used to quantify the value of design. Indeed, based on the results of existing research, it is known that this term has many meanings, and it is necessary to reject the possibility of its total quantification. Much of the related research has focused on the area of user experience and customer value, while other related research has focused on design value, which cannot be measured directly but rather, for example, through system dynamic modelling. This approach, i.e., the use of a system dynamic model to determine the value of design, is still missing in the research literature. The main research method for determining the value of design is the experimental method, supported by other research methods: modelling and structured questioning. Inputs to the model, which represent the opinions of the company's managers on the design, are obtained through a board game that provides an attractive and easy-to-understand user interface for the research participants. The value of design is determined by using a sample case study that contains key variables according to the company's business model. The value of the design is calculated based on the indicator "design cost-effectiveness" over six years of the start-up company's business. The indicator is experimentally verified in a model with an identical structure and different scenarios concerning the involvement of design change in the economic development of the firm. This paper aims to use the gamified DVCG model as an innovative concept in business management through a case study. The contribution of the paper to science and practice is to provide experimentally validated evidence to help identify the areas where design investments are needed to make the most sense for the economics and management of the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainability is recognised as a complex issue with it comprising of three themes, namely social, environmental, and economic impact. The role of professional designers is becoming trans‐disciplinary, with employers expecting designers to be equipped with the necessary skills to implement sustainability within their design process. Environmental sustainability has been and has continued to be an important theme within design and design management literature, with a focus on how to effectively implement this throughout the design industry. It is currently unclear how designers are managing environmental sustainability throughout their design process. To investigate this gap further a detailed methodology was employed, including a review of previous academic literature, an investigation into the design processes of sustainability‐design specialists, and a holistic review of the current status of environmental sustainability within the design industry. The study has enabled an evaluation of the current status of environmental sustainability implementation as well as the management methods used by those in industry to aid designers and their process. From data analysis, a framework has been developed to aid designers in the implementation of environmental sustainability during their design process. Future suggestions for research will also be outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, the entire fashion industry has been striving to develop in a more sustainable way. As the starting and crucial link of fashion product development, the process of design plays a decisive role in creating a healthier fashion supply chain. In this sense, the current work discusses from the design point of view the status quo and future direction of the development of fashion sustainability. The paper first describes the concept, the historical development, and the multi-angled significance of sustainable fashion design. Then, the current development of sustainable fashion design is studied by investigating the various ideas and approaches that are popular nowadays for the designing of eco-friendly and waste-free clothing. On this basis, the current work digs into the existing problems and finally points out the future prospects for the development of sustainable fashion design by putting forward some innovative and promising ideas and instructive "future-making" techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Last Planner® System (LPS) was initially designed as a system for planning and controlling production on projects, that is, to do what is necessary to achieve set targets (Ballard 2000). It was understood to differ from project controls, which sets targets (objectives and constraints on their delivery) and monitors progress toward them. Initially, LPS consisted only of lookahead planning (Ballard 1997), weekly work planning, and learning from breakdowns. In the early 2000s, planning and scheduling project phases (which provide inputs to lookahead planning) were added to its scope, as described in the 2016 Benchmark (Ballard and Tommelein 2016). This 2020 Current Process Benchmark further extends LPS in principle to both production (i.e., striving for targets) and project planning and control (i.e., setting targets). That does not mean there is no longer a role for technical specialists such as schedulers, estimators, inspectors, etc. It means that a single system is needed rather than two systems; a system for the project chain of command to both manage the project and continuously improve the project’s planning and control system. Technical specialists are still needed to collect and analyze information that managers at different levels need in order to make good decisions. Project management functions other than project planning and control include human resource management, project financing, project contracting, and incorporation of technologies. The Lean Construction Triangle (after triangle figure by Darrington et al. in Chapter 1 of Thomsen et al. 2010) provides a way to understand the scope of project planning and control: the LPS has its pride of place in the project operating system. In addition to extending the functions of LPS, a number of other changes will be found in this 2020 Benchmark document. Many of these changes were developed by five task teams working together since 2017. Team 1 was tasked with extending the LPS to planning and control of the entire project. To support that extension, Team 2 was tasked with developing and improving metrics. Team 3 was tasked with recommending location-based work structures for all appropriate project phases. Team 4 was tasked with reducing the barriers to take up of the LPS in design. Team 5 was tasked with developing a better description of means for learning from breakdowns. These five teams each published research reports (respectively Ballard et al. 2020, Christian and Pereira 2020, Nutt et al. 2020, Chiu and Cousins 2020, and Wilkinson et al. 2020) that are available at www.leanconstructionjournal.org and p2sl.berkeley.edu. The reports were used as input to this 2020 Benchmark. Other changes were informed by research opportunities identified in the 2016 Benchmark that have since been addressed to various degrees by researchers around the world. Appendices of this 2020 Benchmark illustrate methods and tools developed and generously shared by practitioners who have adopted the LPS and adapted the System to their project needs. These illustrations are not to be replicated exactly as they are but, rather, we suggest that you view them as a source of ideas and adapt them to your planning needs, language, and practices of your project team.The authors of the 2020 Benchmark decided what changes to include and additions to make, and are solely responsible for any errors and omissions.

Durante el año 2020, la normativa de la emergencia sanitaria obligó a las universidades a impartir la docencia bajo la modalidad de enseñanza a distancia, lo que representó un desafío en el diseño de cursos que requieren una alta efectividad. El propósito de este trabajo es presentar las estrategias que se aplicaron con éxito durante la enseñanza y aprendizaje de las herramientas de gestión del diseño de un proyecto de edificación, implementadas en un curso de la maestría en Ingeniería Civil de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. La metodología consideró el efecto de la Pandemia del Covid-19 y tuvo como objetivo desarrollar habilidades blandas y empleabilidad, para lo cual se propuso un uso equilibrado de plataformas colaborativas virtuales, así como software para videoconferencia y laboratorios. Por otro lado, durante esta asignatura, los estudiantes desarrollaron una propuesta de planificación y gestión integrada de la fase de diseño utilizando herramientas de guías y directrices de sistemas de gestión de proyectos. Bajo este marco, se analizó la participación de los interesados, la toma de decisiones multicriterio, el desarrollo de los entregables del diseño del proyecto y la secuencia del proyecto. El éxito de esta metodología se refleja en la alta calidad de los trabajos y exposiciones finales, el resultado de las encuestas realizadas -eficacia del 99%-, y en las oportunidades de mejora detectadas. Se diseñó e implementó una asignatura no presencial flexible y exitosa, que podría adaptarse a la modalidad Blended Learning. Abstract During the year 2020, the sanitary emergency norm forced universities to teach under the remote learning method, representing a challenge of designing courses that require high effectiveness. The purpose of this work is to present the strategies that were successfully applied during the teaching and learning of design management tools for a building project, implemented in a course of the Civil Engineering master of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The methodology considered the effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic and had as objective to develop soft skills and employability, for which a balanced use of virtual collaborative platforms as well as software was proposed for videoconference and laboratories. On the other hand, during this subject, students developed a proposal for integrated planning and management of the design phase using tools of norms and guidelines of construction management systems. Under this framework, the participation of stakeholders, multicriteria decision making, development of project design deliverables and project sequence was analyzed. The success of this methodology is reflected in the high quality of final papers and expositions, the result of surveys taken - effectiveness of 99%-, and in the improvement opportunities detected. A flexible and successful non-face to face subject was designed and implemented, which could be adapted to the Blended Learning modality.

Theoretical background: Design management is of paramount relevance in many modern organisations, increasingly also in those operating in Poland, remaining an independent approach to change management for the creation of new products and services, achieving better productivity and efficiency in a global and competitive environment. Until now, the basis of design management processes has been to understand the needs of the user or customer, their expectations and aspirations. This approach, like many management concepts, is now undergoing a transformation, driven by huge economic, social, political and environmental changes. The uncertainty of tomorrow, facing crises, wars, erupting pandemics are just some of the so-called Black Swans causing the need for management change in organisations. Nowadays, design management is experiencing a boom, which is primarily linked to a shift away from seeing it only on an operational level or as a marketing function to emphasising its strategic importance. In this situation, the concept of “just in time”, familiar from management by quality, should evolve into “just in case” in a much broader reference than that relating to the production, delivery or storage of raw materials and finished goods. The design management model presented in the article is an example of an activity that responds to the needs of companies precisely in conditions of variability, due to the fact that its essence is flexibility and the possibility of redesigning it by adding or subtracting specific constructs, appropriate to the just in case situation. Purpose of the article: This article aims to present how managerial conditions conducive to the implementation of design management activities can support companies in achieving organisational resilience in a world defined by the acronym “BANI”. Research methods: The research problem is to identify managerial determinants conducive to the implementation of design management activities through which companies can achieve organisational resilience. In order to obtain an answer to the research problem so posed, a literature review of design management approaches was conducted, with a presentation of the traditional Danish Design Ladder model and its updated version, adapted to the BANI concept. Based on the literature, the acronyms “VUCA” and “BANI”, used to describe current economic phenomena, were explained. The article then presents some of the results of a survey conducted in 2019–2020, in companies registered in Poland. Quantitative estimation using the CATI method (1,200 medium and large enterprises) and qualitative verification using PAPI and IDI techniques (58 large enterprises with a high level of project maturity and experience in implementing project management) were used. Main findings: The paper presents design management as a type of organisational activity important for achieving organisational resilience. The essence of design management, its two models and the management conditions necessary to implement this approach were described. The role of managers in implementing change in an organisation is characterised. The above considerations are based on a literature review and own research.

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This article presents a segmentation analysis that categorizes industrial design firms based on levels of design orientation. It could serve as a useful framework for designers to tailor their marketing strategies to specific groups or companies. We conducted both qualitative research involving experts, and quantitative research using a sample of 201 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Spanish furniture and lighting industries. The design capacity building approach of design orientation, which was determined by evaluating scores across seven dimensions of the design orientation scale, was adopted based on: 1) awareness of the benefits of design; 2) design sensibility; 3) basic design skills; 4) specialized design skills; 5) involving others; 6) design organization; and, 7) innovation skills. The results identified three clusters with different behaviors: “full design orientation” (Cluster 1), “design orientation from the top down” (Cluster 2), and “operational design orientation” (Cluster 3). This research provides a pragmatic tool for design service providers, linking design skills, design impact, and organizational performance.

In recent years, the entire fashion industry has been striving to develop in a more sustainable way. As the starting and crucial link of fashion product development, the process of design plays a decisive role in creating a healthier fashion supply chain. In this sense, the current work discusses from the design point of view the status quo and future direction of the development of fashion sustainability. The paper first describes the concept, the historical development, and the multi-angled significance of sustainable fashion design. Then, the current development of sustainable fashion design is studied by investigating the various ideas and approaches that are popular nowadays for the designing of eco-friendly and waste-free clothing. On this basis, the current work digs into the existing problems and finally points out the future prospects for the development of sustainable fashion design by putting forward some innovative and promising ideas and instructive “future-making” techniques.

Tall buildings have become a sign of Economic and technological development in advanced countries, resolving different issues coming from the significant increase in the urban dwellers and land price. This type of buildings is characterized by its high levels of energy consumption and design complexity. The design process of tall buildings involves many professionals from several disciplines, requiring an efficient management to coordinate and interpret the interrelations between these various disciplines in the design stage taking into consideration the global awareness of energy consumption and the urgent need to reduce the quantity of energy used by this type of buildings. Lean process tools and methods have been adapted to the design management process in the AEC industry - known as Lean Design management (LDM) - to improve the context of design and overcome its deficiencies with minimum wastage with a greener comprehensive view of the whole project. Applying lean design management tools to the design process of tall buildings will help in overcoming the challenges coming from the complex design process of tall buildings. Thus, the objective of this paper is to set preliminary guidelines for the integration of the lean design management concept with the design process management of green tall buildings, through a literature review. More than 200 research paper -ranging from 2010 till present mostly indexed in Scopus database- including the aim of the study were selected for review. Research found a number of preliminary guidelines for optimizing the design process of green tall buildings through the adaptation of the lean design management concept. This research is meant to be the first phase of the study to assess the application of lean principles to the design process of tall buildings through practical analysis of case studies that will be carried out in further studies.

This article addresses innovation, entrepreneurship and design management, aiming to investigate how it could contribute to the maintenance of the innovative character of startup companies. A brief survey was made on the importance of design in organizations. The timeline with the main developments from the 1950s to the present day, revealed that design has been strengthened as an entrepreneurial and strategic character. Subsequently, the Brazilian startup scenario was structured, analyzing the context in which they are inserted, as well as their management paradigms, which culminated in the search for information about design management and its role for the innovation of organizations. As a result, the theoretical studies allowed the elaboration of a model with five processes: Design for innovation strategies; Design for idea generation; Design for concept creation; Project to represent the company; and Design as an integrator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovation is a central topic in today's unstable economic conditions. Several disciplines are participating in this conversation, but what would design's role in this discussion? Designers with solid, productive thinking competencies developed around generalised horizontal skills could become central actors in this dialogue. However, design education seems to underestimate the importance of some business aspects of innovation. This study takes some evidence from an investigation with the Electrolux Professional's design and innovation team to discuss the gap between current organisational innovation practices and the strengths and weaknesses of the design in this context. The inquiry suggests a potential opportunity for design in the innovation field. However, to seize it, the design discipline needs to reconsider its traditional company role and straighten its business competencies to guarantee adequate cooperation in innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design capability and design management have been recognized as critical tools for innovation. Reviewing the significant themes in design capability and innovation, the Design Capability Model for Innovation has been put forward in 2022. This article explores the design capability of a technology follower company through the innovation process of a condensing boiler design by referring to this model. The company and the design process have been undertaken as a revelatory single case study stating causal explanations based on the theories. Design capability development of technology follower companies depends on their technological development path and business strategies that they follow in Global Value Chains (GVCs). Focusing on technology follower companies, this article provides a unique insight into the crucial role of design capability and design management in achieving design-driven innovation and also expands the perspective of business practices and academic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With the increasing phenomenon of governments adopting design approaches, their one-size-fits-all kind of training or blind adoption without the understanding of their current capability has reported various limitations. This study introduces an instrument entitled the Design Capability Mapping Tool (DCMT), aimed at engaging government employees to identify their current practices and awareness of design, and organizational conditions for the design capability development. The Design Capability Mapping framework and tool were developed through an extensive literature review and a pilot study. Then it was applied in three government organizations in Singapore. The mapping findings identified each organization's status encompassing multiple aspects of design capability and organization-specific challenges. The strength of the DCMT was to enable employees' collective reflection, instead of management's assessment, and provide a holistic and practical assessment tool that could inform future strategies for sustained design capability development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the relationship between corporate architecture and corporate heritage brand identity. It scrutinises the process by which architectural design enacts an idiosyncratic architectural style by mobilising resources from organisational, cultural and social heritage. In addition to desktop research, including interdisciplinary resources, an empirical case study of bank buildings in France is used to develop the argument. The data collection includes two personal interviews with bank managers and on-site guided visits of landmark buildings. The data are triangulated by supplemental company material and archival research. The notion of architectural heritage conduits is introduced to discuss the findings. The original contribution of the article consists in exploring the architectural features that materialise organisational identity, whilst drawing on social, cultural and artistic heritage. The implications for managers and practitioners suggest that the creation of a sui generis architectural style repertoire differentiates the corporate heritage brand in a competitive environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Construction Design Management (DM) involves the coordination of design processes and activities to ensure quality project design, yet it involves many challenges. This study reports on a collaborative Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project with a Case Study Organization (CSO) that tackled several issues faced by construction design managers. Employing a design science research methodology (DSRM), qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with purposefully identified design managers uncovered real-world concerns around design co-ordination and performance monitoring. To address these concerns, a web-based design management prototype dashboard was developed using typical project data to aid in the management of design coordination, task prioritization, and reporting functionalities. The web-based Design Management prototype dashboard enhances design management productivity in construction firms by monitoring design production, assessing designer performance trends, and focusing on Technical Queries (TQs) and Requests for Information (RFIs). Digitalizing selected design management processes improves efficiency and productivity. The visual reporting of the dashboard enables design production monitoring at project and portfolio levels, assesses trends in designer performance, and maintains focus on TQs and RFIs. Demonstrating how web-based Design Management dashboards can enhance productivity, this study emphasizes practical solutions derived from employing a design science research methodology. The development and application of the web-based dashboard contribute to the growing evidence that employing design science research methodology in construction can yield tangible solutions to address real-world construction concerns.

Delivery planning is a method that determines which deliveries are expected to be delivered at any given time, and the dependency between different deliveries and stakeholders. This study aims to investigate whether the use of the delivery plan increases control over projects' design costs and how Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are being used to increase the control over the project's design costs. It also identifies the benefits and disadvantages of early involvement of stakeholders in the planning process. The research is a qualitative case study with Livsvitenskapsbygget (LVB) project as the primary case. Supplementary data are collected through interviews from four Norwegian projects and one Dutch project. This study is limited to large construction projects and does not cover other types of projects. The study has documented results that indicate that delivery planning increases control over a project's design costs. The results show that using delivery planning reduces the need for iterations and increases predictability. Similarly, the proactive use of KPIs in delivery planning is found to be beneficial in controlling project design costs. Furthermore, the study identifies the benefits and disadvantages of early-stage broad involvement of stakeholders in the design phase. The researchers underline the need for further research in this area, as it indicates that it will have a positive impact on the productivity of the construction industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Du Jinsheng left an impression on later generations as an entrepreneur and patriotic industrialist of the Republic of China in terms of silk weaving. It is undeniable that the Du Jinsheng Silk Weaving Mill he founded and the products he developed made great achievements in the field of brocade crafts and silk weaving art products, but it also covers up the important fact that he played the role of designer and design manager. This is precisely the key to explain why Du Jinsheng’s silk products were able to stand out and even lead the development of silk consumption fashion in the fierce competition environment of Hangzhou silk industry at that time, with the same conditions of “software and hardware” such as weaving technology and production equipment in major silk mills. Therefore, studying Du Jinsheng’s specific practical strategies as a designer and manager can restore the prospect of Chinese silk art design in the Republic of China from point to surface.From the perspective of design management, with the help of historical documents and images, we make an in-depth investigation of Du Jinsheng Silk Weaving Mill’s 20-year development process, and analyze its design management concept and specific operation practices from the three dimensions of design, production and marketing. We find that Du Jinsheng’s initiatives of “saving China by industry” involve the whole process of product design, production and marketing, and reveal his dual design management consciousness of catering to market consumption trends, paying attention to design value, implementing unique marketing mode, meeting consumer demand, solving production technical problems and giving consideration to brand commercial operation planning. Compared with Chen Zhifo’s and Pang Xunqin’s ideas and attempts of “saving China by art”, Du Jinsheng’s initiatives were more in line with the social and historical context of worshiping foreign countries and shrinking consumption at that time. Specifically, there are four epoch-making initiatives that deserve attention:（i） Du Jinsheng continuously improved the weaving technology to broaden the possibility of theme selection and effect expression, adhered to market demand research and competitive product analysis, believed in improved and innovative product strategies, and developed silk landscapes, portraits, shirts, ties, table blankets and other silk daily necessities that met the consumer needs and aesthetic tastes of the target audience;（ii） the design and production links were relatively independent, including breaking the conventional mode of mixed operation of space overlap between the design room and the production line, but also ensuring that the two were closely linked through “100-step cooperation”;（iii） Du Jinsheng attached great importance to the design and value, including personally participating in design affairs other than trademarks, exhibition venue settings, advertising and other products;（iv） while anchoring the attributes of domestic products to win consumers’ national identity, he bound the audience’s cognition of “designated goods” through the visual impact of advertising illustrations, and continued to occupy consumers’ minds with the help of trendy and efficient means of communication means promoted by movie stars.From the perspective of design management, this paper takes Du Jinsheng’s design practice as a case of modern design management in China, and sorts out the previous research fragments of Du Jinsheng’s personal life, silk weaving technology and enterprise management. This study reviews the difficult transformation process of Du Jinsheng’s silk weaving mill under the circumstances of foreign goods dumping, shortage of raw materials and catching up with peers, and provides a referential experience paradigm for the innovative design and brand management of contemporary silk art products, hoping to be a beneficial supplement to the construction of modern Chinese silk design history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital Fabrication (DFAB) is a systemic innovation with low adoption rates in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) projects. Managing requirements of a new design process is one major challenge for the increased DFAB adoption. For other types of innovations, practices such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) improve design management by integrating process, information and organisation in construction projects. In theory, BIM and ECI could improve design management and increase the adoption of DFAB. However, the relationship between DFAB, BIM and ECI has not yet been studied thoroughly. There is a need to understand new paradigms of DFAB design management in regard to process integration, information integration and organisational integration. This study undertakes a comparative study of four DFAB adoptions in AEC projects with varying levels of BIM and ECI implementation. The design processes of DFAB are traced using swimlane process diagrams. From this, relationships between DFAB, BIM, and ECI are derived using a quadripartite interrelationship diagram. This work illustrates the proposed relationships in DFAB adoption in design using a fishbone diagram. This work concludes with potential future research in design management for digital fabrication, including five takeaways for practitioners to adopt and manage DFAB in the design process of construction projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Numerous studies highlight that design thinking is being elevated to the strategic level, on the one hand, propelling designers to the top hierarchical level of the organization, on the other hand, making non‐design functions part of design‐based processes. The increasing adoption of design thinking has transformed how firms implement the related processes and techniques, opening areas of research on how managers differently perceive the relevance of design thinking in achieving innovation goals. In considering the individual dimension as our unit of analysis (i.e. managers), our study relies on the microfoundations theoretical lens to delve deeper into the individual design thinking perceptions of leaders/managers/employees. To do so, we conducted a survey of 197 Italian managers to investigate their different perceptions of the potential of design thinking in achieving innovation goals. The findings show that managers associate a new set of goals with design thinking against the paradigmatic view of a user‐centred practice to generate creative solutions. Indeed, market innovation, organizational change and strategic direction are recognized as goals achievable with design thinking. Moreover, as individuals, managers characterized by (i) different organizational functions, (ii) distinct organizational hierarchy and (iii) diverse organizational experiences differently perceive design thinking in terms of its pertinence to achieving specific innovation goals. By deepening the individual microfoundations dimension, this article contributes to the growing design thinking literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]