Welcome to F&B Sound Bites, a podcast on hot topics, trends and challenges for professionals in the Food and Beverage Industry hosted by Hamish McCook.

Design management is a little known, but crucially important role that provides the structure that enables a project to be successfully designed and delivered and the crucial role it plays in achieving cost and design expectations. We speak with Michael Kinna, specialist in design management and leader of our Design Management Working Group, about just what makes a good design manager a rare and precious gift.