The Emerging Shape of Design Orgs

That typical hierarchical org chart does not depict the relationships between different parts of the team.

As a consultant focused on the org design of design orgs, I work across a variety of contexts—established businesses (banks, retail); software as a service (enterprise software); scale-ups (pre-IPO and growing); start-ups. And repeatedly over the past couple of years, I’ve found myself drawing some variation of the following generic digital product... See more

This post is meant to be a foundational building block for further thinking on emerging standards in the shape of design organizations.