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I often explain responsible AI development through baking. If you bake a cake with salt instead of sugar, you cannot fix it afterwards. You have to start over. 

Everyone’s racing to automate, few are asking if it’s worth it. The future belongs to leaders who use AI responsibly to amplify human talent, not replace it. 

There is a memo from IBM dated 1979 that should be mandatory reading for every CEO racing to deploy AI. It states simply and profoundly: machines cannot be responsible. 

In November 2004, I stood before Hungarian technology ministers warning that accessibility would determine whether Europe achieved an inclusive information society. Today, as the European Accessibility Act reshapes the digital landscape, that prediction has transformed from hypothesis to existential business imperative. 

In the world of design, where creativity meets business, metrics are the bridge that links design efforts to tangible outcomes. Designers must move beyond aesthetics and usability, measuring the value they bring to the business.

How can DesignOps shift from managing tasks to delivering real business value? What are the levels of influence, metrics, and factors that can support DesignOps’ maturity within the organisation?

To understand where DesignOps is headed, we need to take a look back and see how Design evolved to the point of creating the conditions for DesignOps. 

Being able to deliver tangible value to the customers and the organisation is a key challenge for many design teams and leaders. 

DesignOps is a strategic discipline that works and operates to produce concrete and measurable outcomes that connect the design practice to business results. 

DesignOps is a strategic discipline that works and operates to produce concrete and measurable outcomes that connect the design practice to business results. 

 As digital experiences and products grow and become more structured and complex, design and product teams need to review both their cross-functional and their internal ways of working to increase consistency, reduce inefficiencies and errors. 

DesignOps has become a hot discipline and an increasing number of organisations is introducing a design operation function to support their teams. 

 A DesignOps strategy will always begin with an assessment of the status quo, which includes a measurements of all operational dimensions to allow a clear definition of the the actions needed.