Service Innovation & Design

  • Killing the Inner Critic – How Logic Can Destroy the Design Thinking Process

    Let’s start with a thought experiment. You have been working in the same job for years and now you are tasked with creating a new service for your customers. Where do you start? Probably where you already are. Your first ideas are what have always been done and how to improve them, but only slightly.…

  • Citizen participation model and game by City of Helsinki

    Service designers and City of Helsinki employees have developed a new model for citizen participation. One model application is a game that the city service teams, for example in libraries or in health stations, play in order to plan how to increase the participation of their clients. The goal of Helsinki is to become the…

  • Future of Service Design – does it exist?

    Ever thought about this? Is service design just one ism, which comes like a wave: First small, getting strong and then fading away. When reaching the end of its existing curve, the ism is so worn out that no-one even wants to hear the words “service design”. Aalto University Executive Education arranged on the 1st…

  • GovJam2017 – Top 8 benefits of Jams for the public sector

    Service Jams are becoming a common practice in the public sector too – or are they? How many of civil servants actually know the concept or have used the method for developing public services? At least some civil servants know the concept and some have also tested the method locally and nationally, on a small and large scale – and now…

  • At the Footprints of Nobel Winners – Cambridge Venture Camp 2017

    Hello, We are three Master´s Degree students from Laurea Tikkurila where we are studying in a program called “Future Studies and Customer Oriented Services”. Last autumn we participated in a course ”Digitaalisen palvelun käyttäjäkeskeinen suunnittelu” and there we started to develop a business idea for a digital application called ”Big Steps for Little People”, and with that…

  • Dog fur mittens?

    What does the customer of tomorrow want? I was at the launch of futurist Elina Hiltunen’s new book and petification was the morning’s first consumer trend. Elina identifies and explains 18 consumer trends that can have an impact on you, me and on different businesses through us. The trends already exist – it’s a question…

  • Change management- questions, chipmunks, kick offs and major population

    In my previous post I dealt with customer experience management and how CEOs and members of the board discussed about it in a seminar called Customer Oriented Strategies which was held on 16th of March 2017 at Aalto University School of Business. I thought that (at least) one of the seminar presentations deserved its own…

  • Building strong customer experience

    Kirsi Heikel, the host crystallized the idea of the seminar: Strong customer experience- easier said than done. The seminar was held at Aalto University School of Business on the 16th of March. I was invited to the seminar as an alumni and speaker of the Service Design course organized by Aalto Pro –Aalto University of…

  • Living in a bubble

    Ever worked in a multidisciplinary team? Everything worked out well, people got along and you achieved amazing results together? Or maybe there were some challenges along the way? Service Design Network Finland organised an event at Futurice on 14th of March about the power of multidisciplinary teams. In a service design spirit, there was both…

  • Service design meets RAI –evaluation system

    Be open-minded Yes, I have heard it, and I think I have even preached about it. Be open-minded. First and for most. That is how service designer should think, no doubt about it. Still, I have found myself being by and by too blindsighted. Last time this happened to me was few weeks ago. I…