Design managers from different companies often have surprisingly similar challenges...

[Raymond] is the yearly retreat where 20 to 30 European design managers and directors meet to discuss their challenges.
Previous year's topics included 'design effectiveness', 'design leadership' and 'design outsourcing'.

This event is facilitated by PARK and designed by Edenspiekermann.

Read more: www.thedesignmanagersretreat.com

Working with students is a great way to get a fresh perspective. Certainly if they come from all over Europe...

Every year PARK runs a student program, called European Student Network (ESN). This network consists of twenty master students from nine leading design management programs in Europe.

The students challenge PARK and participating companies on design management issues.

Read more: www.esn.bz

Business executives are increasingly getting interested in design as a business enabler.
They don't need to know about the design profession itself, but they need to understand which value they want to get out of it, and how to organise it accordingly in their company.

Together with Tom Lockwood, president of DMI, PARK educates them on this. This two-day seminar is offered by DMI and is called 'Design Value for Non-Design Executives'.

Read more: www.dmi.org

Within the German industry, design management as a profession is still in its infancy...

Together with the University of Wuppertal, PARK organizes a yearly conference to grow the awareness and skills in the area of design management.

This conference is called the Design Management Forum.

Read more: www.design-management-forum.org