A better way to embed service design / Naomi Stanford / Episode

Embedding design into an existing organization often feels like... trying to cram a square peg through a round hole. Right?

In our attempts we often need to bend and shape design in ways that make it lose some of its most important qualities.

Just think about how the holistic nature disappears when design becomes siloed across different departments. Which almost always happens.

… and then people wonder why design isn't delivering on it's promise :-/

I recently had the pleasure to interview Naomi Stanford for the Show. Naomi is an authority in the field of organization design (just published her 8th book).

In the conversation you’re about to hear we discuss the role of legacy and heritage, whether embedding design should be a top down or bottom up approach and whose responsibility is it anyway.

As I found out myself, if you're a service design professional and haven't been exposed to organization design then you're absolutely missing out.

Naomi is a great storyteller and brings up tons of inspiring examples on how these two fields strengthen each other. Click the link below to get in on all the details.

I always love conversations with people who are on the fringes of service design. They expand my idea of what's possible.

[ 1. GUIDE 📺 ]

00:00 Welcome to episode 141
02:55 Who is Naomi
05:45 60 second rapid fire
08:45 A different way to look at design
12:15 The relationship to management
15:15 Look at how work gets done
20:30 What's the downside
23:15 The role of incentives
25:45 Making the leap
30:15 Corporate rebels
37:15 When leadership needs to step in
41:00 What are you going to do
44:15 Showing the organisational benefits
48:00 Embedding change
51:00 Recommended resources
53:15 Final thoughts

[ 2. LINKS 🔗 ]
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https://naomistanford.com/

The Every (book) - https://amzn.to/33NTAPg
Tempered Radicals (book) - https://amzn.to/3KlbHNj

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