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Collaborating in a Complex and Competitive Environment

Within one year, this created the conditions for a company-wide product reorganization in favor of design-led practices, and grew the design function's influence, scope of responsibility, and headcount.


Level 4 Organizational Authority Team: ~30 people Organizational influence / capability building Culture: Scale-up The Workshop

Business risk

Limited understanding of design’s function and value among adjacent teams constrained the design organization’s ability to grow its scope and influence.

Intervention

Applied a management-cybernetics approach, systematically running a design-thinking workshop across as much of the organization as possible.

Business outcome

Within one year, this created the conditions for a company-wide product reorganization in favor of design-led practices, and grew the design function’s influence, scope of responsibility, and headcount.