Thomas Walton is founding editor of the Design Management Institute''s Design Management Review and on the staff of the U.S. General Services Administration Office of Executive Communication. Previous to his current position, for 25 years he was a faculty member at The Catholic University of America''s School of Architecture and Planning in Washington, DC, after which he joined GSA''s Office of the Chief Architect. There he authored a series of monographs on contemporary federal buildings and was part of the team implementing the government''s Design Excellence Program. Design as a strategic organizational resource has been an abiding theme in his work, one he examined in his book Architecture and the Corporation and one he addresses quarterly in the pages of the Design Management Review.