Our work in 2004-07

What we achieved

The Design Council published its last strategic plan, The Practical Power of Design, in 2004.

Here are our top five results.

  • One thousand UK firms benefited from a new national business support programme called Designing Demand.
  • In the North East two thousand people were involved in designing sustainable solutions for their region as part of Designs of the time (Dott 07).
  • National policies on design have been agreed and progressed with government in the areas of UK competitiveness, enterprise, innovation and the creative economy.
  • Multi-disciplinary university centres have been launched to help connect business, science and design for tomorrow’s leaders and creative specialists.
  • Design industry employers have drawn up their first UK skills plan linking design education in schools and colleges with workplace development.

These are some of the firm foundations we aim to build on over the next three years.

The Good Design Plan homepageThe Good Design Plan sets out our plans and objectives for the next three years.

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The Practical Power of Design

The role of design is essential to the process of generating the new ideas and ways of doing things that will improve all our lives. We developed a new programme to improve business performance and enhance public services through a demonstration of the practical power of design.

This Corporate Plan set out the new programme - the challenges we would face and how we intended to address them. It describes the new delivery mechanisms we would introduce in a reshaped organisation, the measures we would use to assess the impact of our work over time, and the costs of implementing the plan.

Download our Corporate Plan