6 basic business terms and concepts every designer should know
Here are six essential concepts you can add to your skillset that will help you align good design to good business
Ryan Rumsey
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Rapidly calculate (and recalculate) your design team priorities
Plays are the epitome of CDO School. CDO School Plays are structured steps and actions to help you make meaningful
The CDO School Design Leadership Playbook
The CDO School Design Leadership Playbook is disruptive to conventional design leadership wisdom. At CDO School, we are focused on helping you make design a more relevant, indispensable, and valued business unit at your company.
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Four categories of product quality (and design) health
Adding quality factors products and services that help teams make decisions around quality, and tracking the effectiveness of those decisions
5 things Design VPs are paid to do differently than a Director or Manager
The biggest development issue in design leadership today is that many Design VPs* still think and act like Managers/Directors. Here's what's expected of you.
Four "fits" to make Design crucial at your company
When I spend time with design teams that are repeatedly creating new value, they make bets on where, how, and with whom Design can successfully bring the most value to customers, the company, teams, and individuals.
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Value-based decision making
Distinguish between two different types of values, “actual” and “perceived”, to ensure you're communicating value in the way executives expect.
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The questions I ask during an interview to know if I want the job.
Fundamentally, I want to know if the job I’m interviewing for will be a good fit for me. Here’s a quick, 3-step process to find the signals that tell you this is the job for you.
The ultimate list of Design and DesignOps metrics
Getting started with metrics as a designer can be difficult! Here's a list of some common metrics you and your teams can use.
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Growing as a design leader–an interview with Christina Goldschmidt
Christina Goldschmidt, Warner Music Group’s VP Product Design, on how she creates repeatable systems through brain hacking, has learned to give things away, maintains her core self, and much more.
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Track good design with four logical, measurable categories of desirability health – introducing POKRs
Expanding traditional OKR methodology with Perspectives – categories that show strategic objectives connect and build upon one another.
5 steps to find stakeholders and key collaborators who will champion your ideas.
There will always be people who are skeptical of design. Great design leaders focus on early adopters and executives who will be your champions.
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Active listening is a powerful way to grow your influence–and it's learnable
Learn a dialogue script to practice active listening with your colleagues to ask for small behavior changes.
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Create strong business cases with The Situation, Complication, Resolution (SCR) framework
When it comes to communicating business rationale, a great communication structure can make or break your presentation. Learn the secret structure used by top consultancies around the world.
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SWOT and SOAR; your stakeholders' favorite way to evaluate risk
Learn two of the most effective ways to make a hard decision and get a clear, shared plan moving forward.