design+strategies

Design in organization

Description

Design in organizations aims at using design culture and designersly way of doing to enable organisations to balance different resources and needs, both maintaining and creating sources of competitiveness, through intervention, integration, and capacity building.

  • Intervenes at different levels: to bring design culture and approach at different organisational levels to facilitate changes and transformations, from design department, to R&D, as well as to high management level.

  • Focuses on different business typologies: to collaborate with different typologies of businesses, from leading companies to SMEs at the local level, as well as start-ups; from business companies to non-profit associations.

  • Intervenes on different phases of innovation: to support organisations from research on users, markets and technology to shaping competitive product and service concept and market offerings.

  • Supports with methods and tools for actors who are not familiar with any design (thinking) approach and methods.

  • Builds capabilities and involves stakeholders: one the one hand, to empower internal employees and stakeholders; on the other hand, to connect with external experts from different sectors and with different skills to contribute to the organization's innovation.

Discover projects

Training activities to promote design culture in an upholstered Chinese company

Provide the cultural and technical bases to define and manage innovation processes in the products and services fields.

Understanding the role of design within technology start-ups.

This observatory aims to bring together a group of companies willing to exchange views on the recent evolutions of Design Thinking

Application of a human-centred approach to develop creative skills for the use of new digital technologies.

Tools and methods for a start-up contest with the aim of enhancing creativity and entrepreneurship.