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An Effective Tool for Enabling Companies to Add Value and Build Competitive Advantage

Peter Haythornthwaite, Principal, creativelab Limited

 

Peter Haythornthwaite
Peter Haythornthwaite

Building a user-focused, design-led company means change, and goes far beyond simple aspiration. Design leadership capability cannot effectively change without addressing organizational culture, and organizational culture cannot change without addressing values. An innovative Design Audit developed by Equip Design is being employed by Deloitte Touche and others in New Zealand to enable SMEs to utilize design to leverage intellectual property and build sustainable competitiveness in global niches. This fresh approach requires a quantum leap past business-as-usual to embedding design culture into the company vision.