192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Design Project Management is a guide to contracting and working with designers, and managing design projects proactively through to successful completion. It provides guidance for clients on simultaneously optimizing the business outcome and the creative opportunity of a design project by getting the best from a design project team through leadership, team building, mutual understanding and good... Read more
Contents: The key to design management; Assembly of the client team; The briefing process; Shortlisting design consultants; Presentation of concepts and assessment of proposals; Appointment of design consultants; Design development, design coordination and information management; Tendering and contract strategy for works contractors; Project management; Post-project review activity; Bibliography; Further information; Index.
Biography
Griff Boyle is a director of Griff Boyle Design Management (GBDM Ltd) UK. He has extensive, senior level experience of major, acclaimed UK design projects, both as an in-house manager and as a design management consultant.
'The book provides a useful contribution to the ongoing challenge of how to get companies to take design seriously and use it effectively. Well managed design projects invariably have a positive influence on the bottom line.' Ray Holland, Director of Masters Design Courses, Brunel University, UK
