If you are a designer and want to better understand and develop your strategic potential, this book is for you! This book off ers eight strategic design practices for design professionals who seek to grow or have already grown into a more strategic role in innovation. These practices have been distilled by expert strategic designers (from, for instance, Philips, Fabrique, npk design, Lifework, Reframing Studio) and researchers in the field of strategic design. The practices are illustrated through tools, methods, cases and guidelines that together will enable you to quickly familiarize with them and get ready to apply them in your next strategic design project.