ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation as the Traditional Custodians of the lands upon which I live, work and play. I pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.

 

Contributors

Special thanks to those that contributed to the development of the Design Leadership Radar by participating in research, or being a soundboard and source of feedback for the development on this model: 

  • Henry Cho, Head of Design

  • Taya Gregory, Design Lead

  • Vinny Feeney, Design Lead

  • Pete Barber, Product Designer

  • Phil Walters, Head of Design

  • Remya Ramesh, Product Design Leader

  • Maria Christley, Senior Design Manager

  • Nick Bligh, Product Design Lead

along with others who did not wish to be identified through the qualitative research process.

 

References

The Design Leadership Radar builds on top of the thoughts and literature from the many great Design Leaders and organisations below:

Aronowitz, K 2017, Our time to step up, Vimeo, Leading Design Conference, viewed 06 August 2020 <https://vimeo.com/243661175>

Buley, L 2019, The New Design Frontier, InVision <https://www.invisionapp.com/design-better/design-maturity-model/>

Danish Design Centre 2001, The Design Ladder, Danish Design Centre <https://danskdesigncenter.dk/sites/default/files/pdf/design_ladder_2016_eng_0.pdf>

Design Management Institute 2015, Design Maturity Matrix <https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.dmi.org/resource/resmgr/Design_Value_Index/Design_Maturity_Matrix_Color.pdf>

Frisby, S 2019, First comes scale, Vimeo, Leading Design Conference, viewed 08 August 2020 <https://vimeo.com/351148206>

Gloppen, J 2009, ‘Perspectives on design leadership and design thinking and how they relate to European services industries’, The Design Management Institute, vol.4, no. 1, pp. 33-47

McKinsey & Company 2018, The Business Vaue of Design, McKinsey & Company <https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-design/our-insights/the-business-value-of-design>

McKinsey & Company 2020, Are you asking enough from your design leaders?, McKinsey & Company <https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-design/our-insights/the-business-value-of-design>

Muenjohn, N. et al. 2013 “Design leadership: a conceptual framework of leadership, design and team performance.” <http://www.ipedr.com/vol60/032-ICEMI2013-K10038.pdf>

Polaine, A 2020, Boiling the Ocean: Complexity, Service Design, & Systems Thinking, The Future of Now, More Space for Light <https://morespaceforlight.com.au/2020/07/08/the-fon-series-boiling-the-ocean-complexity-service-design-systems-thinking-with-andy-polaine/>

Wakelam, H 2020, Design Leadership – Harriet Wakelam, sound recording, RMIT University <https://medium.com/@marius_foley/leadership-2020-package-4-9601223045a4>

Westcott, M et al. 2013, The DMI Design Value Scorecard: A New Design Measurement and Management Model, Design Management Institute <https://cdn.ymaws.com/sites/www.dmi.org/resource/resmgr/Docs/DMI_DesignValue.pdf>

Saylor Academy 2012, Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Qantitative Methods

<https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_principles-of-sociological-inquiry-qualitative-and-quantitative-methods/> 

Zhou, J 2019, The Making of a Manager, Portfolio/Penguin, New York, New York.