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03/10/20 • 60 min
UX Designer and CEO of Clearleft, Andy Budd curates the Leading Design and UX London conferences and helped set-up The Brighton Digital Festival. Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like SXSW, An Event Apart and The Next Web.
In this episode, we spoke about:
- the biggest learnings from the last Leading Design conference,
- why and how designers should say no to their managers,
- and the current state of design education.
02/25/20 • 62 min
Maija Itkonen is an industrial designer, successful entrepreneur, innovator, and brand lover. In 2015 she co-founded Gold&Green Foods, the company behind the phenomenal success story of the “perfect protein food” platform and its first product Pulled Oats. Pulled Oats is a new kind of meat alternative based on the Nordic superfood oats, built around the team’s unique scientific knowledge and design thinking under Maija’s leadership.
With Maija, we talked about:
- her rocky path from a design school to starting companies,
- how and why Gold&Green became a nation-wide sensation in Finland,
- and what it means to start and run a purpose-driven startup.
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09/04/19 • 39 min
“My name is Jason Barron, and I’m a designer. I’ve always been doodling, sometimes when I shouldn’t - like in class as a kid. Fast-forward 20 years and not much has changed. Except that I decided to put my lifelong doodling habit to work when I received an MBA from a top 40 business school, Brigham Young University.”
Jason is an author of The Visual MBA, a great book explaining all key business school concepts and frameworks through illustrations. It’s a perfect book for all designers who want to grasp basic business concepts in a language that we are well versed in - images.
In this podcast we talked about:
- Jason’s favorite business school concepts,
- if he would recommend other designers to take an MBA,
- and how he decided to publish the book.
08/15/19 • 14 min
Imagine working on the iPhone before its release in 2007. Imagine the number of design decisions to be made. No one knew if this is going to be successful.
Now, imagine working on the iPhone in 2019. Now, the level of design work is completely different, for sure.
Each product has its lifecycle and its strategic position in the company. If we learn what type of product we work on, we will know where design has the most value.
In this mini MBA episode, I talked about:
- why iPhone is a “cash cow” and iTunes a “dog”,
- the growth-share matrix that helps us categorize our products,
- and what the role of a designer is for each product strategy.
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07/30/19 • 11 min
Customer is king. Especially to designers. We would do everything for them. We fight for what they want and need. But is that always a good idea?
I would argue that it is sometimes self-destructive. That it is against what customers actually want.
Find out more in this mini MBA episode in which we discuss the fundamentals of a business strategy
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07/23/19 • 15 min
This week, I published the Business Design Guide, which introduces business design as a design discipline. In this episode, I present the outline of the guide and share a few stories from my career that led me to write this guide.
I took one topic from the guide and presented it in more detail. What most budding business designers overlook is the importance of a design mindset. So, I share six mindsets that make a business designer, business designer.
https://www.beyondusers.com/guides/what-is-business-design-guide
07/16/19 • 59 min
John Oswald is a business design pioneer. He was the first business designer at fjord where he defined its role and built the team. He is currently a managing director at a strategic design consultancy Method London. With John, we discussed:
- the early days and evolution of the business design,
- five patterns of business design talent,
- how hiring business designers work,
- and how typical business design deliverables look like.
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07/09/19 • 9 min
Imagine you are running a hotel. Who would you rather have as a customer? High value but one-time visitor or an average customer who will keep coming back for many years? It depends, right?
Lifetime Value (LTV) is a concept that can help us determine the business value of our customers and with that understand:
- who is an ideal customer,
- how much they are worth to a business,
- and how much we can spend on acquiring a customer.
In this mini d.MBA episode we cover the definition of lifetime value and its relevance for designers.
06/25/19 • 10 min
In the second mini d.MBA episode, we look at two related business concepts:
- Opportunity Costs
- and Return on Investment (ROI)
If you take a year off from work and do an MBA, this doesn’t just cost you $100k. During that same year, you could be earning your salary. So, your opportunity costs (for that year) are way above $100k.
A freelancer that takes on a project with a 50% discounted rate won’t be able to sell that time to a much better paying corporate gig if it shows up at a later point.
How can we best decide among different opportunities and their costs? One way is calculating ROI.
03/24/20 • 66 min
Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and a professor at Columbia Business School. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking.
She wrote Discovery-Driven Growth and The End of Competitive Advantage, which are widely used in the business design community.
In this podcast we talked about:
- how and why we should prototype with numbers,
- why the era of sustainable competitive advantage is over,
- and how designers can explain “inflection points” to business leaders.
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FAQ
How many episodes does d.MBA have?
d.MBA currently has 110 episodes available.
What topics does d.MBA cover?
The podcast is about Design, Podcasts, Arts, Business and Careers.
What is the most popular episode on d.MBA?
The episode title '49- How one fine-dining restaurant thrives during the COVID lockdown' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on d.MBA?
The average episode length on d.MBA is 52 minutes.
How often are episodes of d.MBA released?
Episodes of d.MBA are typically released every 14 days, 21 hours.
When was the first episode of d.MBA?
The first episode of d.MBA was released on Jan 29, 2018.
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