corporate responsibility matters

CR Matters is moving house…

Dan Gray — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:41:26 +0000

In anticipation of publication of my new book, CR Matters is moving. For my latest posts, please visit the new Live Long and Prosper site. Those of you who’ve been kind enough to subscribe to my RSS feed and email alerts, and to link to this blog, please be sure to update those links as soon [...]

Design for sustainability using “biomimicry”

Dan Gray — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:13:23 +0000

Continuing the thread of recent posts surrounding design and Design Thinking as the means by which business can achieve both sustainability and profitability, here’s another excellent TED talk from Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry. The crux of her argument? After 3.8 billion years of evolution, there probably isn’t a single design challenge that hasn’t been efficiently [...]

And the winner is…

Dan Gray — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:37:12 +0000

A little birdy’s told me that a project I consulted on for SAS has won a Red Dot Design Award, and I’m really chuffed about it. Not because I can claim the core insight that unlocked the whole solution (it’s not an ego thing, honest!); what really makes me smile is that the client in question [...]

More pearls of wisdom from Marty Neumeier

Dan Gray — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:23:56 +0000

Whilst travelling in and out of London yesterday, I started (and indeed finished) reading the latest offering in Marty Neumeier’s series of “whiteboard overviews” – The Designful Company. As anyone who’s read The Brand Gap or Zag will know, that’s the real beauty of Marty’s books. In terms of insight gained per minute spent, you just [...]

Design Thinking + Sustainability = Enduring Success

Dan Gray — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:28:06 +0000

Is this the new winning formula for business? A recent post by Kevin Keohane led me to revisit Bruce Nussbaum’s fantastic piece on design thinking in Business Week from a couple of years ago. In it, he made a powerful argument for design thinking as the new management methodology, taking design out of the narrow realm of [...]