Interview with Christopher Ireland

Interview with Christopher Ireland

Nathan/ You are probably one of the best design researchers on the planet. How did you approach strategy for your clients, especially when you weren’t necessarily hired to do strategy? Christopher/ Thanks. Part of it came from my background.  I have an MBA and...
Interview with Steve Diller

Interview with Steve Diller

Nathan/ I wanted to ask you about research in the context of strategy, because it’s absolutely critical, but the type of research is, in fact, probably more critical than whether you do research or not. Obviously, there’s no point in doing bad research but...
Interview with Jon Pittman

Interview with Jon Pittman

Nathan/ You have a different approach to strategy from most traditional strategists, partly because you’ve said, before, that it’s broken. How do you fix it, either how it’s taught or how it’s practiced? Jon Pittman/ I built our process [at Autodesk]...
Lectures on YouTube

Lectures on YouTube

I’ve started recording more succinct version of the lectures from my teaching at CCA. These cover a variety of subjects, including Design Thinking, Color, Type, Information Design, and in the future will include all of my presentations, including videos...

Interview with Susan and Guthrie at Team W

My article and podcast conversation with Susan and Guthrie from Team W is now live. We talked design, economics, and how designers can be more business-aware in order to be more effective designers....
Strategy is in Crisis (presentation)

Strategy is in Crisis (presentation)

I was kindly invited by Danil Kislinsky to present to his impressive Go Global community about why business strategy needs to be completely rethought. This is the current focus on my professional work.