Season 1 Final Episode - Martin & Brian Hoadley review the season.

I've invited Brian Hoadley to return, having opened the season, and reflect back with me on 9 interviews with 9 very different Leaders of Design.  All of our guests have led design in an in-house, large-scale complex environment and have brought with them some insightful perspectives on the role of Design and Design Leadership in its intersections with Business Leadership.

In this review episode, Brian and I unpack what we've learnt across the whole Season and start to reflect on where we need to go next in elevating the impact of Design within Business.

This will be a great episode for anyone looking to reflect on their learnings from the season as we touch on just about everything, and it may also be a useful guide for anyone new to the seasons (although I'd still encourage you to listen to the series and then the summary so you can reflect along with us).

I'd like to thank all my guests for Season 1 of Business X Design

Brian Hoadley - Interim Design Exec
Dr Anne Stenros - ex CDO City of Helsinki
Andrew Barraclough - Design Director - GSK
Clive Grinyer - Head of Service Design - Royal College of Art
Jose Dos Santos - Head of Design - Signify and PhD - 10 Barriers to Designers at the c-suite
Pernilla Johansson - CDO Electrolux
Peter Merholz - Founder Adaptive Path, Author - Org Design for Design Orgs
Jane Austin - CXO - Digital and previously CDO in Healthcare
Nathan Weyer - COO Design at Philips

SHOW RESOURCES:
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OVERVIEW
In today's episode, I'm going to be in conversation with Nathan Weyer COO of Design at Phillips.

For me Phillips is one of two aspirational models for Design in complex legacy organizations (The other being IBM). Organisations that have transformed themselves to be relevant and growing into the future with Design as a core superpower.

In this episode, you'll gain an insight into Phillips Design Team,  their scale, their approach and attitude and you'll hear Nathan reflect on the balance between human and business outcomes that has been central to the company and the Design Team's success.  For me it's the evidence that with humble, but bold leadership and a purpose that aligns across disciplines within a company - Design can be the heart of the delivery of meaningful and profitable outcomes.

I hope you enjoy the episode

SHOW LINKS & RESOURCES:

You can find out more about the Philps Design Team at this public website
and you can connect with Nethen Weyer on LinkedIn

subscribe to the Business x Design Newsletter here

and connect with your show host Martin Dowson on LinkedIn - we really welcome feedback from our listeners so do get in touch!

OVERVIEW:
In this episode, I am joined by Peter Merholz, Design Executive and Organisational Consultant, Author and Founder of Adaptive Path.

His book, co-authored with Kristin Skinner, Organisational Design for Design Orgs is a go-to book for so many Designers, Design and non-design Leaders.  
 
In our conversation, we cover specifically the difference between Tech-First and Legacy Organisations in how they see Design within their organisational structure, what difference this makes to the way they invest in and support Design, what this means for newly minted design executives.  We touch on themes that I covered with both Jose Dos Santos and Clive Grinyer in earlier episodes about the blockers that Design-Leaders face on the way to the c-suite.

This is a conversation about the mindset, skills, attention and orientation of executive leadership and what Design needs to ‘get over’ (sometimes itself and sometimes others) in order to achieve that.

 SHOW LINKS & RESOURCES:

I referenced an article that Peter published recently on the focus and role of a Design Executive which is really useful to remind Senior Design Executives what is expected of the executive role.

Other ways to connect and follow Peter's thinking:

• Peter Merholz on LinkedIn
• Peters Personal Website contains his writing and musings on humanising Design
• Org Design for Design Orgs the website contains updated reflections on the topic of Design Orgs and Design Leadership and is worth following
  
  
• Peter has his own podcast - co-hosted with Jesse James Garrett - call Finding Our Way that is absolutely worth adding to your regular downloads - I'm a subscriber and find it invaluable.

subscribe to the Business x Design Newsletter here

and connect with your show host Martin Dowson on LinkedIn - we really welcome feedback from our listeners so do get in touch!