Establishing and scaling a kick-ass design-led innovation practice
Establishing and scaling a design-led innovation practice is no easy task. We’re often treated with resistance to change, lack of leadership support, balancing creativity and commercialization, creating a culture of innovation, and maintaining consistency. 😩
In this very open and frank talk, Nathan will share four personal stories about building and scaling design and innovation practices he’s been involved in over the years—a brewery, a bank, a nation and a big 4 consultancy.
These are lessons from 20 years of establishing and scaling design-led innovation at a team, organisation, and country level. 🧠
Nathan will share his key learnings, the critical success factors, the false paths, the traps, and the epic failures, including how to identify early on whether your design practice is heading for failure and how to progress, pivot or perish. 🔥🔥
About the host:
Nathan is the founder of customer-driven innovation and growth from Methodry and the author of 'Innovator's Playbook', published by Wiley. He is an internationally experienced innovations strategist, facilitator, trainer and speaker living in Sydney, Australia.
He has been practicing and leading Design Thinking and innovation for 20+ years, a former Partner of Design Thinking for global management consultancy KPMG, where he established and led their Human Centered Design practice.
Nathan has run 100s of innovation projects, 1000s of workshops and spent tens of thousands of hours leading and training innovation across most industries and continents with global giants and market-leading organisations like Australian Institute of Sports, Diageo, Les Mills, Siemens and Unilever.
He is passionate about democtratising innovation while balancing the need to maintain rigorous standards of teaching and practice to enable all individuals, teams, organisations and countries to prosper and flourish through delight-led innovation.
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