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Sean Carney Chief Design Officer for Royal Philips

Whether it’s their cutting edge lighting or covetable electric toothbrushes, Philips leads the way in effective and beautiful design. In the first of our one-to-one interviews with international design leaders, Raymond Turner talks with Sean Carney, Chief Design Officer, about the challenges and ambitions of leading design in one of the world’s most famous businesses….

How well do you know your design agency?

Can your business ever truly be a success if you don’t understand your own personal needs and desires in relation to it? How, as a business owner, can you make work work for you on a personal level? The DBA’s Services Director, Adam Fennelow, caught up with Jack O’Hern from Wright Vigar to find out.

Flubbing that big expensive hire

Half of the hires you make need to take your agency further from their very first day. But you can go too far with that concept – hiring far out ahead of your supply lines.

What Clients Think 2016

The DBA are pleased to support the new What Clients Think 2016 report by Up to the Light. Based on 435 client interviews, these figures reveal a fascinating snapshot of the client viewpoint and provide important pointers for agencies on how they can strengthen their client relationships.

Grand Prix winner: GREAT

There can only be one winner of the coveted Design Effectiveness Grand Prix, and this year it was presented to HM Government and Radley Yeldar for the GREAT Britain Campaign which has delivered over £1billion direct return to the UK economy.

Design is competitive advantage

Providing the proof that design creates competitive advantage, HM Government, Virgin Media, Diageo, LOVE, Williams Murray Hamm and Factorydesign were amongst the 61 winning client and agency partnerships at the 2016 DBA Design Effectiveness Awards ceremony last week.

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