How to manage the organisational dark matter / Marzia Arico / Episode #129
I’m sure you’ve experienced it… You put your heart and soul into your piece of work, you seek to create value through design, you have an optimistic mindset.
But whatever you do, you always feel like at that place’s a mysterious organisational force pushing against you.
It’s the “organisational dark matter” that makes your life as a service designer so much harder.
But at that place’s hope.
As the design director at Livework tasked with bringing service design to many different organisations, Marzia Arico has experienced her fair share of this dark matter.
Her conclusion is that if you want to create impact, you can’t just focus on the design piece of work. That’s just 10% of your job.
You have to learn how to effectively deal with the other 90% as good. And that’s what this episode is all about.
What I love about the conversation with Marzia is that all her stories are rooted in practical real-life experiences.
Stories filled with insights that have the potential to make your life easier and your piece of work more fun.
[ 1. GUIDE ? ]
00:00 Welcome to episode 129
02:45 Who is Marzia
03:30 60 second rapid fire questions
06:30 dark matter and organisational logic
11:00 finding the right narrative
15:00 lack of one view
19:45 what client does it take
24:45 you move at multiple speeds
27:00 what does progress look like
30:00 making change sustainable
33:30 the operating model for design
38:30 scaling design capability
45:00 advice for smaller teams
50:00 Final thoughts
[ 2. LINKS ? ]
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/marziaarico/
* Reinventing Organizations (book) – https://amzn.to/3AWklNp
* Dark matter and trojan horses (book) – https://amzn.to/3i8ohlL
* https://www.servicedesignshow.com/campfire/
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