Seminar - Managing as Designing: What next? Oxford, 30 October

[Lucy Kimbell]

Dear all

While Dick Boland is briefly in the UK, I'm taking the opportunity to  
organise a seminar bringing together educators and researchers  
involved in bringing design approaches to management education. All  
welcome but numbers are limited.

If you would like to attend, please contact my colleague Esther  
Vicente at the address below.


Seminar on Managing as Designing: What next?
Friday 30 October 3-5.30pm
Said Business School, University of Oxford

Scholars and educators have been revisiting Simon's (1969) claim that  
design is concerned with what should be, making it central to  
professional education in management. Since Boland and Collopy's  
'Managing as Designing' workshop (2002) at Case Western Reserve  
University, several other schools of management have started paying  
attention to design approaches, whether conceived of as a "design  
attitude" (Boland and Collopy 2004) or "design thinking" (Dunne and  
Martin 2006). Some oganisation scholars argue that management is a  
design science and that design should be brought to established  
disciplines such as organization design (eg van Aken 2005; Bate and  
Robert 2007; Jelinek et al 2008; Starkey et al 2009) and that design  
- rather than Simon's problem-solving - is central to innovation (eg  
Hatchuel 2001; Hatchuel and Weil 2009). This seminar asks: What are  
the key ideas that underpin these developments? What do they mean for  
management education and research?

Speakers
Richard J Boland, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western  
Reserve University
Blanche Segrestin, Ecole des Mines, Paris
Ken Starkey, Nottingham University Business School
Bruce Tether, Design London, Imperial College

Respondent
Jenny Whyte, University of Reading

Chair
Lucy Kimbell, Said Business School


Participating
If you want to attend please email Esther Vicente to reserve a place  
at esther.vicente@.... References will be available on the  
InSIS website shortly: http://www.insis.ox.ac.uk

How to get here
Said Business School is right next to Oxford train station, which is  
1 hour from London Paddington (2 fast trains an hour).
Maps and directions are at http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about/Pages/maps.aspx


Links
Centre de Gestion Scientifique, Ecole des Mines  http://
www.cgs.ensmp.fr/
Design London http://www.designlondon.net/
Lucy Kimbell's blog http://www.designleadership.blogspot.com/
Ken Starkey http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/LIZKS.html
Weatherhead School of Management        http://design.case.edu/
Jennifer Whyte   http://www.icrc-reading.org/profile/detail.asp?
ProfileID=77



Lucy Kimbell
Clark Fellow in Design Leadership
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford OX1 1HP

Blog: Design leads us where exactly? http://
www.designleadership.blogspot.com

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