- When design is a black box, to those relying
on its outcomes, they're not in control of their destiny.
They need to understand how design happens
in the same way they need to understand
the technology within their products.
As we discussed, presentations are far too high-burden
and low frequency to serve as our primary line
of communication in a fast-paced venture.
So here are a few thoughts for how you can get close
and drive continuous engagement.
Get current.
Consider communicating continuously by replacing
more formal weekly and monthly check-ins
with a combination of very fast daily stand-ups
alongside real-time cloud collaboration
and team management platforms like Slack and Asana.
Go interactive, move meetings from a presenter-audience
format to interactive workshops and collaboration sessions.
If you're looking for more information on how
to leverage design thinking approaches to co-creation,
check out my colleague Turi McKinley's course
titled Lead Change in your Organization.
Go ambient, a great option for keeping teams
aware and aligned in this time of information overload
is to put the information right in their path.
The most immersive approach to this is to collocate
and take advantage of the cross-talk and watercooler
conversations to keep people in sync.
If the environment begins to tip from informational
and stimulating to distracting and annoying,
create sheltered spaces or times to support
the necessary heads-down work.
These ideas are neither new nor radical,
but you'd be surprised by how big
a difference a few small changes can make.
Hopefully these suggestions will help you
to increase efficiency, continuity,
and capability development in your venture.