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Caroline Otto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Square Peg in a ROUND HOLE?Integrating a Design Consultant into a Textile/Clothing Company
Design Management Journal (Former Series), 2010Co-Authors: Victor Herbert, Caroline OttoAbstract:THE FASHION INDUSTRY, with its need to present a new line of products every few months, is a world where change is the norm and Design is crucial to meeting business challenges. What Victor Herbert and Caroline Otto reveal is that it takes more than an idiosyncratic Designer to assure optimum results. In such a world, Design Consultants must be thoroughly integrated into the team to build strong partnerships with suppliers, stimulate technological innovation, and maintain a vast communications network with both internal and external customers.
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a square peg in a round hole integrating a Design Consultant into a textile clothing company
Design Management Journal (Former Series), 2010Co-Authors: Victor Herbert, Caroline OttoAbstract:THE FASHION INDUSTRY, with its need to present a new line of products every few months, is a world where change is the norm and Design is crucial to meeting business challenges. What Victor Herbert and Caroline Otto reveal is that it takes more than an idiosyncratic Designer to assure optimum results. In such a world, Design Consultants must be thoroughly integrated into the team to build strong partnerships with suppliers, stimulate technological innovation, and maintain a vast communications network with both internal and external customers.
Brian Gouin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Security Design Consulting: The Business of Security System Design
2007Co-Authors: Brian GouinAbstract:A crucial reference for the practicing or aspiring Design Consultant, "Security Design Consulting" brings you step by step through the process of becoming a security Consultant, describing how to start the business, market services, write proposals, determine fees, and write a report. Specific elements of assessment, Design and project management services as well as acquiring product and industry knowledge are all covered in detail. Concentrating on client-focused marketing and sales strategies as well as the crucial elements of preparing, running, and succeeding at the security consulting business, "Security Design Consulting" gives the reader a working knowledge of all the steps necessary to be a successful security Design Consultant and a smarter business owner. Security directors, architects and security management Consultants will also find this reference invaluable in understanding the security Design Consultant's important and growing role in an overall security program. It focuses on consulting in security Design, not security management. It provides sample service agreements, specifications, and reports to use as models. It emphasizes the highest technical and ethical standards for this increasingly crucial profession.
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Understanding the role of the security Design Consultant.
Journal of healthcare protection management : publication of the International Association for Hospital Security, 2006Co-Authors: Brian GouinAbstract:: As the employment of new and more complicated devices to meet security needs has grown, so has the need for special expertise in this area. The role of the security Design Consultant and the advantages of utilizing such services are explained by the author.
Victor Herbert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Square Peg in a ROUND HOLE?Integrating a Design Consultant into a Textile/Clothing Company
Design Management Journal (Former Series), 2010Co-Authors: Victor Herbert, Caroline OttoAbstract:THE FASHION INDUSTRY, with its need to present a new line of products every few months, is a world where change is the norm and Design is crucial to meeting business challenges. What Victor Herbert and Caroline Otto reveal is that it takes more than an idiosyncratic Designer to assure optimum results. In such a world, Design Consultants must be thoroughly integrated into the team to build strong partnerships with suppliers, stimulate technological innovation, and maintain a vast communications network with both internal and external customers.
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a square peg in a round hole integrating a Design Consultant into a textile clothing company
Design Management Journal (Former Series), 2010Co-Authors: Victor Herbert, Caroline OttoAbstract:THE FASHION INDUSTRY, with its need to present a new line of products every few months, is a world where change is the norm and Design is crucial to meeting business challenges. What Victor Herbert and Caroline Otto reveal is that it takes more than an idiosyncratic Designer to assure optimum results. In such a world, Design Consultants must be thoroughly integrated into the team to build strong partnerships with suppliers, stimulate technological innovation, and maintain a vast communications network with both internal and external customers.
Mohd Hisham Ariffin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Retention and attrition of experienced Malay male Architects in Malaysian architectural Design Consultant firms in the Klang Valley, Malaysia
2019Co-Authors: Mohd Hisham Ariffin, Ismah Summayyah Mohd AmarAbstract:The Malaysian construction industry suffers from a high rate of talent attrition within architecture Design Consultant firms which hinders these firms from strategic nurturing of employees needed to sustain the firms’ involvement in the global market. This paper reports the findings of an investigation into the factors that contribute to employment retention and attrition of a purposive sample of ten male professional Malay Architects in Malaysian architecture consulting firms in the Klang Valley. These reasons were uncovered through analysis of interview transcripts with the sample cohorts. Qualitative data coding generated employment retention and attrition meaning units relevant with need categories in Alderfer’s ERG motivation theory which are existence needs (physiological, material security, convenience) relatedness needs (group belongingness, social needs, family obligations, friendship obligations, social obligations and social esteem), growth ( self esteem and self actualization) and intrinsic motives (choice, progress, competence and meaningfulness). All respondents remain in the firm when the employment provided convenience and self-esteem to them, and from a sense of group obligations for the firm. Yet they would seek employment elsewhere when the gratuities with the current employer cannot fulfill their physiological needs. They also leave when they do not fulfil self esteem needs. Thus, a possible theme within the responses is that high order (growth) needs and mid-order (relatedness) needs retain male professional Malay Architects while the failure to meet low order (existence) needs and high order (growth) needs motivate their employment attrition. Further investigations are warranted due to the limitations of the sampling methodology (249 words)
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Retention factors of experienced Malay male Architects in Malaysian architectural Design Consultant firms in the Klang Valley, Malaysia
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019Co-Authors: Ismah Sumayyah Mohd Amar, Mohd Hisham AriffinAbstract:The Malaysian construction industry suffers from a high rate of talent attrition within architecture Design Consultant firms which hinders these firms from competing locally and globally. This talent attrition hinders strategic nurturing of employees needed to sustain the firms’ involvement in the global market. This paper reports the findings of an investigation into the factors that contribute to employee retention of a purposive sample of ten male professional Malay Architects in Malaysian architecture consulting firms in the Klang Valley. It explored the reasons for respondents remaining with their employers through data collected from qualitative interviews. The data in the form of interview transcripts, interview memos and analysis memos were analyzed using category coding to generate meaning units and categories of employment retention. The analysis was based upon Alderfer’s ERG motivation theory and intrinsic motivations. It was found that existence needs (convenience, physiological needs, material security), relatedness needs (group belongingness, social needs, family obligation, friendship obligation, employment group obligation, social obligation, and social esteem), growth needs (self esteem and self-actualization) and intrinsic motives (choices, progress, competence and meaningfulness) underlie the employment retention of the respondents. The research findings provide insights about Malay male Architects employment retention factors in Malaysian architecture consulting firms.
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BOURDIEU CAPITALS AND LEADERSHIP: THE CASE OF Design Consultant FIRMS’ MANAGERS IN THE MALAYSIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019Co-Authors: Mohd Hisham Ariffin, Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahim, Ruslan Affendy Arshad, Ruzaini ZahariAbstract:The creative products of Malaysian Design firms are critical for sustained competitiveness in the increasing globalised and local construction market. These products are derived from the collaborative efforts of the Design leaders and their subordinates. Owner-managers of Design firms are aware of the role of their leadership in increasing the productivity of their creativity workers. Knowledge of effective leadership traits has initially guided leadership development and sustainability. Later theories such as charismatic theories and leader-member exchange theories have a common theoretical paradigm of leader-follower relations. A novel approach to this leadership theoretical paradigm is replacing relevant leaders’ traits with Bourdieu capitals that effectively influence their followers. This paper reports the findings of interviews with subordinates in Malaysian architecture, civil engineering and landscape architecture Consultant firms regarding the influence of the superior’s Bourdieu capitals upon their creativity. Qualitative thematic coding analysis of the interview transcripts generated the relevant Bourdieu capital categories and theme. The leader’s human, emotional, leadership, cultural and social capitals were found to influence the subordinate’s creativity motivation. The data indicate a common theme of followers’ creativity motivation through learning from leader’s superior human capital. The learning is aided by the leader’s emotional capital. Thus, Bourdieu capitals offer an innovative perspective in studying and possibly quantifying leaders’ influence upon their followers.
A. Van Der Togt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Skills for Servitization: A Servitization Framework and Toolbox for a Service Design Consultant
2017Co-Authors: A. Van Der TogtAbstract:Servitization: Shifting from products, to integrated product service bundles in B2B - Clients do not want standalone products, they want solutions. Those solutions often require a combination of products and services integrated in one effective solution. For the past 20 years, the provision of services has permeated almost every facet of industrial activity. When asked to give an example of great service, most people still refer to those received in “classic” service industries – hospitality, telecommunications, or finance to name a few. However, reality is that some of the best and most innovative services stem from companies that provide products. Case in point: Toyota just launched a huge campaign for their new product-service combination: Toyota Flexdriving1. Customers no longer have to buy a car or take care of the responsibilities associated with owning one (e.g. road tax, maintenance or repair). B2B manufacturing or constructing companies have jumped on the bandwagon, shifting from providing products to bundling those products with services. Notable examples are Rolls-Royce “Power-by-the-Hour”2 and Xerox “Pay-per-Copy”3. Each company has built its new business strategy around the services it could provide. This is servitization – the process through which companies, once focused solely on products, shift their strategies to services. This project set out to explore this phenomenon (the drivers, enablers, inhibitors and Design practices) and translate the findings into a “Servitization Framework of Knowledge” and two tools that make the gathered insights actionable. The literature on servitization provides a wealth of scattered best practices4,5 but was found to be lacking in providing a clear overview of challenges organized both by topic and by specific shift a company makes. The objective of this project was to provide the service Design Consultant Livework with a framework of knowledge that could be used for projects in the context of specific servitization shifts. For that reason, the framework was Designed to accommodate relevant knowledge to specific shifts rather than generalized best practices. One of the biggest challenges found, was determining the right servitization strategy. No servitization shift is the same and companies struggle with finding the right foundation to build their strategy on. Since earlier research shows that the presence of a clearly-defined service strategy is an indicator for the likelihood of a successful servitization shift6, developing a tools for this purpose was paramount. The technique and tool help companies structure the information needed to ground a servitization strategy, in one overview. For a servitization strategy to succeed, it is key that the entire organization of the new service provider understands that the true value to the client lies in the efficiency and effectiveness of an offered solution rather than the proper functioning of the product. The organizational mindset has to change from a product-focus to a service-focus and that proves to be a big challenge. The second technique and tool address this by changing the focus from provisioning products to solutions in a workshop setting.