Tag: workshop

  • Aligning strategic foresight in large organizations – Workshop at SDGC

    Aligning strategic foresight in large organizations – Workshop at SDGC

    During the Service Design Global Conference (SDGC) arranged in October, a workshop was held around facilitating future visions in large organizations.

  • Designing remote working practices to improve employee experience (EX) in organizations

    Designing remote working practices to improve employee experience (EX) in organizations

    In recent years, remote working has become a hot topic as organizations are developing new working processes and modern collaborative platforms and technology emerge. At the same time, firms are moving towards human-centric approaches and working in multidisciplinary teams to stay competitive. Due to these rapid changes in several industries, recruitment, finding right competences and…

  • Developing a Non-Governmental Organization’s operations in Zimbabwe through co-creation

    Developing a Non-Governmental Organization’s operations in Zimbabwe through co-creation

    Zimbabwe Aids Orphan Society (Zimbabwe Aids-Orvot ry.), founded nearly 20 years ago, is a Finnish non-profit association founded by Seppo Ainamo and Oili Wuolle. The association raises funds for welfare and supports education for orphans in the poor neighbourhood of Dzivarasekwa in Harare, Zimbabwe.  Currently, roughly 500 members support almost 400 orphans (out of which 63%…

  • Practise, practise, practise.

    Michihito Mizutani from Siili Solutions held a short introduction to service design as a part of Design Track in School of Startups. Instead of inclusive theory lesson, he kept the workshop more hands on. His work history is strongly related to user experience and service design. Currently he is facilitating co-creation design workshops in different…

  • I, Roadblock of Innovation

    Creating new service in a established organisation is hard, very hard if you take the word for the speakers of last weeks breakfast seminar, Perkele! held at the Tennispalatsi movie theatre. Unsurprisingly, the big two challenges are the onboarding of fellow employees and fighting the rigid organisational structures that are built to support the existing…

  • Are you a Designer?

    How many of you consider yourself as a designer? This was one of the first questions we were asked in our service design workshop at Lahti University of Applied Sciences on October 9th 2012. Probably you can guess the answer, roughly half of the participants raised their hands. Then it was time to wake people a…