What really works in advancing the corporate design agenda
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Pierre-Yves Panis, Group Design Manager, Legrand
As design managers, we're always looking for ways to better leverage design in our organizations:
How can we best communicate about design so that we get the authority and support we need?
How do we convince the decision-makers around us to believe and trust in design?
We need to look beyond theories or “best practices” towards ideas that really work, ideas that are relevant and smart, ideas taken from real experience that we can tweak and build upon and make our own.
So I’ve asked my design manager colleagues from all over Europe about their most successful techniques for promoting the design agenda. I wanted to hear anecdotes and ideas drawn from their experiences—real-life stories about how designers found ways into the hearts of their corporate colleagues. I've collected their stories and picked the best ones to share in this webinar. It will be a sampling of big ideas and small details, one-off experiments, and long-term initiatives.
We know that every corporation and design agenda is unique, and what works in one environment might not work anywhere else. But by looking at ideas from a diverse cross-section of designers and companies, we give ourselves lots of starting points for developing new ideas, for sparking our imaginations, and creating solutions that work for us.
Biography
Pierre-Yves (PY) Panis is Group Design Manager for Legrand, a leading manufacturer of electrical systems. Based in Limoges, southwest France, Legrand develops switches, outlets, DatCom products, building control, alarm and lighting systems for markets all around the world.
Prior to joining Legrand in 2003, Pierre-Yves was Principal Designer at Moen. Before taking on corporate jobs at Moen in the US and Legrand in France, Pierre-Yves spent eight years in southern Africa where he created and managed Design Co Operation (DCO), a nonprofit design structure aimed at improving urban informal sector production in Zimbabwe. DCO’s activities were centered on a commitment to “design for development,” using an industrial design approach to conceive of and develop products specifically for small-scale, low-tech production environments.
He is a graduate of Les Ateliers (the French National School of Industrial Design) in Paris.
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