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Managing as Designing
By: Richard J. Boland Jr.; Fred Collopy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Pub. Date: August 15, 2004
Print ISBN-10: 0-8047-4674-5
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-4674-8
Pages in Print Edition: 312
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Overview
The premise of this book is that managers should act not only as decision makers, but also as designers. In a series of essays from a multitude of disciplines, the authors develop a theory of the design attitude in contrast to the more traditionally accepted and practiced decision attitude.
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Table of Contents
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1 TokenChapter 4. Management and Design: Interaction Pathways in Organizational Life
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1 TokenChapter 5. Evolving Spatial Intelligence Tools, from Architectural Poetics to Management Methods
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1 TokenChapter 17. Management and Design: A Historical Reflection on Possible Future Relations
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1 TokenChapter 18. “Open Planning”: Reflection on Methods and Innovative Work Practices in Architecture
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1 TokenChapter 19. “I Think with My Hands”: On Balancing the Analytical and Intuitive in Designing
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1 TokenChapter 21. From Tangibles to Toolkits and Chaos to Convection: Management and Innovation at Leading, Design Organizations and Idea Labs
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1 TokenChapter 23. Drivers Versus Designers as an Organization’s Building Philosophy
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1 TokenChapter 34. The Managing as Designing Project Calls for a Redesign of the Research Setting!
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