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From Insights to Action: Driving Business Values through DesignOps
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Monday, January 8, 2024 • DesignOps Summit 2020
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From Insights to Action: Driving Business Values through DesignOps
Speakers: Melissa Tsang
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Summary

Business leaders now recognize the Business Value of Design, but how about the importance of Design in driving our Business Values? DesignOps plays an essential role in defining how individuals, teams, and organizations think and operate. Now comes the next chapter - operationalizing our values. As system designers who establish new processes, scale best practices, connect teams, and facilitate alignment, how might we utilize our DesignOps superpowers to unlock greater business value for our stakeholders, customers, and communities? Together, we’ll examine how Design Ops is leading the way to put business values like collaboration, equity, and innovation into practice.

Key Insights

  • Operationalizing core company values can align and motivate siloed teams in large organizations.

  • Salesforce’s V2MOM framework empowers every employee to set personal priorities aligned with company values annually.

  • Design ops has a unique horizontal view that enables connecting dots across product silos to foster collaboration.

  • Redesigning existing rituals like quarterly business reviews and team meetings can create time and space for innovation and collaboration.

  • Introducing asynchronous communication, such as Slack channels for design reviews, accelerates feedback and increases engagement.

  • Highlighting cross-team collaborative projects in leadership meetings encourages more joint initiatives and visibility.

  • Tracking collaborative hours can reveal significant time and cost savings often overlooked initially.

  • Partnerships with external organizations like AIGA can both support community giveback and enhance company talent pipelines.

  • Embedding community and volunteering into recurring meetings and off-sites reinforces company commitment to social impact.

  • Driving values in design ops requires storytelling, intentional partnerships, unique KPIs, and leadership at all levels.

Notable Quotes

"Business values serve as a North Star, guiding leaders through turbulent and prosperous times alike."

"At Salesforce, everyone writes a V2MOM, defining their vision, values, methods, obstacles, and measures for the year."

"Our design ops team are the dot connectors — we see patterns across silos that others often don’t."

"A small change in the quarterly business review template resulted in 24 new collaboration projects being highlighted annually."

"Moving design reviews to Slack channels enabled more frequent, real-time feedback beyond weekly team meetings."

"Innovation requires deliberately carving out time in packed schedules, often by redesigning existing rituals."

"Our partnership with AIGA not only supports emerging designers but also strengthens our talent pipeline."

"We made community a standing agenda item at UX town halls, ensuring regular volunteer opportunities."

"Measuring collaborative hours surfaced unexpected cost savings and productivity gains."

"Values begin and end with us as leaders; it’s our opportunity to permeate culture and teams."

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