Creative and Strategic Leadership in Design Orgs—Super-Senior ICs and the Shadow Strategy Team (3rd in a series on Emerging Shape of Design Orgs), Peter Merholz

Senior management (CEO and executive team) is responsible for the organization's objectives and key results.

Seeing design as part of a living system applies equally to more subtle design tasks, like the “design” of guiding ideas. “Organization design is widely misconstrued as moving around boxes and lines,” Bill O’Brien used to say. “The first task of organizational design concerns designing the governing ideas—the purpose, vision, and core values by whi

If different functional organizations (such as design, engineering, or quality assurance) have larger objectives (such as responsive design, technical debt, and test automation), they should be discussed and prioritized at the leadership team level along with the other business objectives, and then incorporated into the relevant product team's obje

discussion. Next, you'll use the answers you generated to help you plot the trend on the CTR. What are the long-term strategic goals for our organization, department, or team? How can this trend help us achieve or revise those goals? What are the short-term tactical aims for our organization, department, or team? How can this trend help us achieve