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  • Service Design Breakfast #5: There is no such a thing as service design by Anton Schubert

    Fifth talk, 28.11.2012   With a twenty-five year career experience in design, ex IDEO employee, the Head of product & service design at 358 Anton Schubert says: “there’s no such thing as service design”.

  • Competing with Business Models

    “If you are not thinking about business models, you are an irresponsible leader.” Co-author of Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) Alexander Osterwalder challenged Finnish business experts in Business Model Innovation Seminar in Helsinki 6th of November 2012.  He stated business models makes organizations thrive or die. “We will have more industries where companies…

  • Service Design meets Futures Thinking – IN ACTION

    Before our 2nd blog post for the series of Service Design meets Futures Thinking, we have a special news for you ! The first test environment for combining Futures Thinking with Design Thinking takes place in Helsinki in two weeks ! This is an invitation to all design thinkers, futures thinkers, strategic minds and innovative…

  • Service Design meets Futures Thinking

    A series of posts discussing the statement “Futures Research supports the Service Design process in multiple ways and throughout the whole process”. Part #1: Conclusions based on the first round of literature review by Minna Koskelo and Anu K. Nousiainen. This is the first post by the authors regarding the “Service Design meets Futures Thinking”…

  • Welcoming the new SID Master’s students

    The 3rd SID Master’s group started their Service Innovation & Design studies at Laurea Leppävaara on 6th September. For three days, the 26 new students were completely submerged in the Laurea’s cocreative learning culture, which provides the foundation for success as they pursue the Master’s programme together. With team-building activities, the new students were able…

  • Experiences from the first SID student group

    In this story, a student from the very first SID Master’s group tells how everything went from the first idea of starting the studies to the point in which all the studies including the Master’s thesis are completed. This is a very long story. So, sit comfortably before you start the journey through the SID studies.…