What Is Design Management

Design management encompasses the ongoing processes, business decisions, and strategies that enable innovation and create effectively-designed products, services, communications, environments, and brands that enhance our quality of life and provide organizational success.
On a deeper level, design management seeks to link design, innovation, technology, management and customers to provide competitive advantage across the triple bottom line: economic, social/cultural, and environmental factors. It is the art and science of empowering design to enhance collaboration and synergy between "design” and "business” to improve design effectiveness.
The scope of design management ranges from the tactical management of corporate design functions and design agencies, including design operations, staff, methods and processes-to the strategic advocacy of design across the organization as a key differentiator and driver of organizational success. It includes the use of design thinking-or using design processes to solve general business problems.
Some examples of professionals that are practicing design management include design department managers, brand managers, creative directors, design directors, heads of design, design strategists, and design researchers, as well as managers and executives responsible for making decisions about how design is used in the organization.
A number of leading international educational institutions have established design management as a respected course of study and research, including Brunel University (UK), De Montfort University (UK), Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of Design (US), INHOLLAND University (Netherlands), KAIST (South Korea), Lancaster University (UK), MIP - Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Parsons School of Design (US), Pratt Institute (US), Savannah College of Art and Design (US), Suffolk University (US), University of Salford (UK), UMIST - University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (UK), and the University of Kansas (US).
As leading practitioners of design management and design leadership, DMI members are actively engaged in design thinking and managing industrial design, graphic design, service design, environment design, brand identity, fashion design, interface design, interior design, experience design, architecture and engineering. They work for corporations, design agencies, educational institutions, and government.
This video was created by Ayko Neil Kehl, Andri Zindel, Shirin Dörig & Grace Wu as part of the Design Management International studies at HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts).
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Massive like, such an amazing video

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the «get to the point right now moment»

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Great explanation 💙💙💙

[@ridima9494]

Thank you it is really very helpful

[@hannahmasutani8449]

This helped me so much :D would this video also take part in design management? Or is it only for products

[@aykokehl]

Product design is used as an example. The video should be specific about design management, although the topic is so big that we could just scratch the surface of it :).

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What are the video's credits? who did it? I'd like to quote it in a homework

[@Simone-hi9do]

I use this in my thesis: Ayko Neil Kehl. (2020, 8 February). What Is Design Management [Video]. KZbin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2bUpmSVjceagKs

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The video was created by Ayko Neil Kehl, Andri Zindel, Shirin Dörig & Grace Wu as part of the design management studies at HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts).