Ryan Rumsey on re-engineering over re-inventing to make faster business impact
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#008 - As designers, we take on the responsibility to make the world better through design and we feel we have to come up with new ideas and solutions. But sometimes, reusing a solution that already works might be a faster and more impactful approach. In this episode, author of Business Thinking for Designers and CEO of Second Wave Dive shares his stories of making business impact through re-engineering successful tools and methods. Ryan also shares his struggles growing as a designer and design executive and how he thought he wasn’t doing a good job. He also shares his advice on building your contextual awareness of your organisation to be a more effective designer. Ryan also reveals the various factors that shaped him throughout his life and importance of self-work in continuously iterating your values and maintaining your wellbeing as a designer.
In this episode:
- When you’re thinking you’re not doing a good job
- Living your values authentically and iteratively
- Letting go of the idea that I have to invent everything
- The impact of your organisation's narrative
- Building your contextual awareness within your organisation
- Importance of self-work
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Kapitel
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. Giving back to the community (00:02:03)
3. Thinking you're not doing a good job (00:07:44)
4. You don't have to re-invent everything (00:21:24)
5. The impact of your organisation's narrative (00:27:52)
6. Building your contextual awareness within your organisation (00:36:08)
7. Importance of self-work (00:41:19)
8. Perspectives , Objectives and Key Results (00:43:11)
9. Recap (00:48:57)
10. Ryan's recommended resources (00:53:01)
11. Finding Ryan online (00:56:01)
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