Design leadership

Design leadership is a concept complementary to design management. In practice, design managers within companies often operate in the field of design leadership and design leaders in the field of design management. However, the two terms are not interchangeable, they are interdependent. In essence, design leadership aims to define future strategies and design management is responsible for implementation. Both are critically important to business, government and society, and both are necessary in order to maximise value from design activity and investment.
Design leadership can be described as leadership that generates innovative design solutions. Turner defines design leadership by adding three additional aspects for design leadership:
Turner separates the core responsibilities of design leadership in following six activities: