{"id":1984,"date":"2010-09-28T22:16:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T02:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2010-09-28T22:17:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T02:17:24","slug":"recommended-number-of-%e2%80%9cdesign-thinkers%e2%80%9d-for-a-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Recommended number of \u201cDesign Thinkers\u201d for a company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many Design Thinkers should your company have?<\/p>\n<p>One way to think about it might be . . .<br \/>\nIf we consider Design Thinkers to be at the level of strategy. And most corporations do ok if their executives spend about 1 or 2 days a year on strategy or about 1\/2 of a percent of their time. And if management to staff ratio is 1:11.<\/p>\n<p>If a company has 10000 people, then about 900\/100 = 9<\/p>\n<p>Company size 1000 = 1 Design Thinker<br \/>\nCompany size 10K = 9 Design Thinkers<br \/>\nCompany size 100K = 90 Design Thinkers<\/p>\n<p>*******<br \/>\nThe above is just a thought exercise in trying to come up with a heuristic for an executive who asks \u201cHey, I agree that Design Thinking is important, I am going to start a department, How many Design Thinkers should I hire?\u201d Can we even think about staffing Design Thinkers like we think about staffing accountants or salespeople?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Design Thinkers should your company have? One way to think about it might be . . . If we consider Design Thinkers to be at the level of strategy. And most corporations do ok if their executives spend about 1 or 2 days a year on strategy or about 1\/2 of a percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}