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In this CDO School Play, you’ll learn how to calculate (and recalculate) your org and team priorities with the Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create (ERRC) Grid. It is a simple matrix-like tool helps you focus simultaneously on eliminating and reducing the activities that aren’t producing the results you need so that you can raise and create the activities that are or will.
If you know the concept of product-market fit, this is how we examine how the design practice fits the business model and strategy.
The CDO School Leadership Playbook is disruptive to conventional design leadership wisdom. At CDO School, we are focused on helping you make design a more relevant, indispensable, and valued business unit at your company.
The Four Fits of Design Org Value: a framework developed by Ryan Rumsey for Chief Design Officer School. A guide designed to transform how design leaders position their teams within the broader business landscape of their companies.
Fundamentally, I want to know if the job I’m interviewing for will be a good fit for me. Here’s a quick, 3-step process to determine the questions I want to ask a potential employer about a role.
Getting started with metrics as a designer can be difficult! Here's a list of some common metrics you and your product or customer support partners may use to determine whether your work connects to theirs.
Perspectives, objectives, and key results (POKRs) is a framework to add quality factors of design and business health to traditional OKR methodology.
If you want to try new things, build a case of evidence that those things work, and are looking to find an executive sponsor, use our free Stakeholder Mapping canvas.
Learn a dialogue script to practice active listening with your colleagues to ask for small behavior changes. The Imago Dialogue Script.
When you lead Design people, teams, and the organization, the most significant shift is knowing that most of your colleagues don't think about design as a craft or practice. They think about it as a group of people with specific skills and capabilities with a budget… essentially a big pile of "features". Yes, they want to know how these "features" help customers, but they really want to know how those "features" also help them.
Hiya! I'm Carolina Tod. Working with product design in Brazil for at least 15 years, I learned to appreciate more things from abroad than my own. This fact made me compare myself with others with different experiences, backgrounds, and life stories than mine, leaving me constantly stuck. It’s important I reconnect with ancestry, culture, city, and community to build confidence.
Force-field Analysis is a great visualization tool used to rapidly examine the forces both for and against a change.
Announcing Chief Design Officer School, the new home for Second Wave Dive’s renowned courses and learning programs. Applications for January 2023 are open!
Develop a sense of how your cross-functional partners perceive you with The Good Partner Map. Use this resource to document a model of your functional value, to understand how excited your partners are to work with you, how easy your team is to engage with, and how to to continuously improve your partnerships.
In this webinar, CDO School founder Ryan Rumsey shares more about our approach to learning, what it means to be part of a global network of 700+ graduates, our instructional space, and answers questions about why this program is like no other course out there.
How reconnecting with ancestry, culture, city, and community raised my confidence as a design leader
Hiya! I'm Carolina Tod. Working with product design in Brazil for at least 15 years, I learned to appreciate more things from abroad than my own. This fact made me compare myself with others with different experiences, backgrounds, and life stories than mine, leaving me constantly stuck. It’s important I reconnect with ancestry, culture, city, and community to build confidence.