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Design Management

The way you react says a lot about your business

The nuts and bolts: Design management is a field of study that combines project management, design, strategy, and supply chain techniques to manage the creative process, foster a creative culture, and establish a design structure and organization.


Design management and design leadership sound like they’d be almost interchangeable terms, right? Nope … though they are related. Here’s a handy-dandy chart to help explain what we mean:

Design Management

Design Leadership

Reactive–responds to business situations using a predetermined set of tools, skills and processes Proactive–predicts a future business situation, then charts a course to get there
Knows how to get from point A to point B in the design process Knows where point A and point B are in the design process
Responds from a process Leads from a vision

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