Scholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models and grounded theories to improve organizations by design. For designing managers and managing designers, the book offers visual and conceptual models as well as theoretical concepts that connect the practice of designing with the activities of changing, organizing and managing. The book zooms in on designing beyond products and services. It focuses on designing businesses with a particular onus on social business and social entrepreneurship. Designing Business and Management contributes to and enhances the discourse between leading design and management scholars; offers a first outline of issues, concepts, practices, methods and principles that currently represent the body of knowledge pertaining to designing business, with a special focus on perceiving business as a social activity; and explores the practices of designing and managing, their commonalities, distinctions and boundaries.

An Introduction to Designing Business / Jürgen Faust and Sabine Junginger -- Part 1: Design Shifts. Design on New Ground: The Turn to Action, Services & Management / Richard Buchanan -- Designing Business Matters means Designing Business Models / Jürgen Faust -- Thoughts on Design as a Strategic Art / Sabine Junginger -- Part 2 : Organizational Developments. Struggle in Designing and in Management / Richard Boland, Jr. -- Three Thousand Years of Designing Business and Organizations / Ken Friedman -- Redesigning Organization Design / Daved Barry -- Part 3 : Design Thinking Approaches. Bridging Design and Business Thinking / Charles Burnette -- Design Thinking as an Indication of a Paradigm Shift / Oliver Szasz -- Design Thinking in Teaching Innovation / Castulus Kolo and Christoph Merdes -- Emerging Production Models: A Design Business Perspective / Stefano Maffei and Massimo Bianchini -- Hand-made by Love: Crochet Work and Social Business Design / Nadja Ruby, Elisa Steltner, and Wolfgang Jonas -- Part 4 : Educational Challenges. A Studio at a Business School? / Stefan Meisiek -- Designing Education for Business / Teal Triggs -- Collaboration requires Design Thinking / Matthew Hollern -- Translational Design: The Evolution of Design Management for the Twenty-first Century / Michele Rusk -- Weaving Together Creative Problem Solving and Design Thinking in an MBA Class / Amy Zidulka.