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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808807603321

Autore

Quint Eric

Titolo

Design leadership ignited : elevating design at scale / / Eric Quint, Gerda Gemser, and Giulia Calabretta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-5036-2986-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

658.5/752

Soggetti

Leadership

Industrial design - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Why This Book with These Authors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Design Context -- 2 Design Leadership -- PART 1 Establishing the Design Foundation -- 3 Design Direction -- 4 Design Organization -- PART 2 Empowering the Design Team -- 5 Design Taxonomy -- 6 Design Resources -- PART 3 Elevating to Design Excellence -- 7 Design Scaling -- 8 Design Excellence -- Appendix Research Method and Approach -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Design leadership at scale requires leaders who design the design function, establish a thriving environment for the creative team, and shape the design organization to drive progress, advance innovation, and enhance meaningful customer experiences. To examine the foundations of successful design leadership, the authors performed extensive in-depth interviews with design leaders working for Fortune 500 organizations across industries. Based on these insights, Design Leadership Ignited delineates a pathway to design excellence, which includes establishing a forward-looking strategy and an adequate organizational structure for the design function, empowering the design team, and scaling the impact of design across the entire organization. This book takes the position that a core challenge in the journey towards design excellence is the need to recognize and balance



the often-contradictory objectives and activities that design leaders encounter. Combining their practitioner experience and research, the authors provide a framework to embrace the complexity of design leadership that will elevate design at scale.