A design team is a multi-disciplinary group of people, selected and commissioned by senior leaders, who manage the DETAILS and logistics of the design process. (In small organizations, the senior leadership team may fill many of the design team responsibilities.) Under the GUIDANCE of the consultants as well as steering team, the design team conducts an ANALYSIS of the current organization and DEVELOPS design recommendations which they present to the steering team for adjustment and approval. We then form an implementation team, made up of the same number of people (half from the original design team) who will manage the transition and implementation phases of the PROJECT (two to three months). The major responsibilities of the design team are the following:

• Plan and participate in analysis and design events
• Collect data, organize, refine and summarize data regarding the current state of the organization
• Study and make design recommendations to senior leadership and the rest of the organization
• Help senior leaders keep people informed about the status of the design process, developing communications plans and holding regular up-date meetings
• Support implementation following design
• Model collaboration and team principles throughout the process

A design team is a multi-disciplinary group of people, selected and commissioned by senior leaders, who manage the details and logistics of the design process. (In small organizations, the senior leadership team may fill many of the design team responsibilities.) Under the guidance of the consultants as well as steering team, the design team conducts an analysis of the current organization and develops design recommendations which they present to the steering team for adjustment and approval. We then form an implementation team, made up of the same number of people (half from the original design team) who will manage the transition and implementation phases of the project (two to three months). The major responsibilities of the design team are the following: