Tag: service design

  • Cut the corners first – Harness the power of futures thinking

    “Futures are about knowledge. We must be inspired about futures. Futures are also about storytelling. “ explained lecturers Minna Koskelo and Anu K. Nousiainen. In the course Futures thinking and foresights methodologies we learned how futures thinking is linked to service design and how it can be applied in business. Through hands-on workshops lot of new…

  • Engaging stakeholders in the designing of a service: a case study in the B2B service context

    Author: Adeyanju Alade. Email: aladeyanju@yahoo.com The background of this master’s degree thesis was from a Tekes funded project named “Service Innovation through Strategic Stakeholder Integration” (SISSI). SISSI is a joint project undertaken by Laurea University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Hanken School of Economics, Finland.  In addition, there are two case companies as main…

  • Why should you participate in the next Global Service Jam?

    Read carefully the content below and check with your own eyes “Why you should participate in the next Global Service Jam” and  if you have participated before, please let’s us know your experience and/or comment what you think about my experience afterwards. Global Service Jam The idea of the Global Service Jam is to create in 48…

  • Service Design Breakfast #7, Reima Rönnholm, Palmu Inc.

    Figure 1. How to Fail in Service Design, Palmu 2012 The last Service Design Breakfast was not about digital design, but more human-centric services. Reima Rönnholm started his presentation by asking everyone if they have already failed in anything this week or this day. Failing isn’t really fun, but what can we learn from failing? Reima quoted…

  • Service Design Breakfast: Integration of Service Design and Elearning

    by Juho Hyvärinen Thursday 29 November Facebook alerted me that I had enrolled for the Service Design Breakfast at Otaniemi. So, it was time to print out the tickets and head for the Aalto University, formerly known as TKK campus at Espoo. I arrived at Aalto University’s Start Up Sauna and after a freebie breakfast it…

  • Service Design Breakfast #2 – Mikko-Pekka Hanski, Idean

    Figure 1. Service Design Breakfast, Idean 2012 How do emotions impact the design? How can design projects benefit from understanding the emotional rollercoaster? How can you become a better designer if you are aware of the changes in emotions throughout a project? How can you adjust your project plan based on that? In this blogpost…

  • IN PLANNING: A joint research project to create strategic partnership network

    by Päivi J. Tossavainen The growth of ser­vice business is projected to continue in EU. This trend touches all organizations. It also provides opportunities for Laurea, while systematic research and disciplined new business practices are sought in the field of service innovation and service design. Traditionally European research on service has been strong. Thus, a…

  • Toolbox for growth and innovation – the outcome-driven innovation process

    The author challenges traditional ways of gathering information for innovation in products and services. In this book, Ulwick introduces an outcome-driven innovation process, which he presents as new and productive. The book has a refreshing point of view on customer involvement and distribution of work between customers and experts. It is important to know precisely…

  • Design Thinking – Group Exercises to Train Your Design Muscles

    We formed one of the teams in the Design thinking course fall 2012, led by Mariana Salgado and Sanna Marttila.  During the course we were introduced to the main ideas and philosophy of design thinking, ways of seeing and understanding design as well as with various methods, project and cases from the multifaceted field of…

  • Book review: New Service Development and Innovation in the New Economy

       “New service development: the process from idea to launch of a new service”  “New service development is a modification of current services and or adaptation of the service that is already offered in another geographical market.” (Edvardsson, Gustafsson, Johnson, Sanden 2000).             Why is new service development so important?…