I spent some time looking around the web to see how the idea of Managing as Designing is fairing in the blogosphere. Here are some of the entries I can across. (When you jump to the page, just do a search for "Managing as Designing".)

A June 13, 2005 article by David Dunne titled Grand Designs mentions the book as part of a growing body of evidence for "the power of design thinking to change business, and our lives."

Agile programming advocate Glen Alleman's Herding Cats blog has a brief yet positive review.

On Chris Martin's Innovative Eye blog he described a talk that Bill Buxton gave at The Front End of Innovation Converence in May 2007 at which he pointed to our book on Managing as Designing as evidence of the trend toward design thinking in management.

Mark Schraad described the last chapter of our book (on vocabulary) as "an important start" in establishing a "proper language that brings precision to the conversation [of design] with business."

Lucy Kimbell of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford sees the ideas in the book as one of a number of approaches that are stretching design management to enable it to deal with strategy, innovation and organization. She has incorporated readings from the book into her MBA design leadership elective.

Alex Osterwalder made a brief positive mention of this site on Ralf Beuker's Vol 2: design-management.de site. Sabine mentions the book on the same blog. Ralf also mentioned our workshop and "highly recommended" book on the Zollverein School's blog.

Mackert who teaches advertising at U.T. Austin is working ideas from the book into his undergrad class.

In a discussion of design thinking Mark Rettig referred to our first chapter as "excellent" on the distinction between decision and design mindsets.

Interaction designer Jeff Howard made reference to John King's essay on the relationship of form and function.

The book is also on interesting reading lists, including:

• Marketing, brand and design consultant Mark Schraad who says its even better on the second reading
• Military strategist Paul Van Ripper
• Richard Greene's 4000 favorite books