

Service Design Show
Service Design Show
Go beyond the basics of service design and learn what it truly takes to deliver services that make a positive impact on people, business and planet.
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Oct 20, 2016 • 32min
Leveraging the Customer Journey as a dynamic change plan / Daniel Ewerman / Episode #14
How do you put customers at the heart of your business? Daniel Ewerman talks about the power of the customer journey when it's treated as a change plan instead of a deliverable. We also talk about the need to design service organisations not just services.
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EPISODE GUIDE
1:25 - Daniels first encounter with Service Design.
5:17 - Why do organisations fail to put the customers at the center of their business?
14:00 - Why service design(ers) shouldn’t design services but organisations?
22:12 - What if the customer journey is a dynamic change plan?
28:01 - Expert tip: get yourself familiair with the language.
29:18 - Big question: how to create ownership of the change plan?
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ABOUT DANIEL EWERMAN
Twitter ➜ https://goo.gl/6WgiAw
LinkedIn ➜ https://goo.gl/3j9rzu
LINKS FROM THE SHOW
Transformator Design ➜ https://goo.gl/8AXngy
Custellence ➜ https://goo.gl/x5kQon
Customer experience: why some organisations succeed - and others don't (book) ➜ https://goo.gl/cTVBma
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Oct 6, 2016 • 32min
How to express any service using 4 fundamental elements / Xin Xiangyang / Episode #13
Professor Xiangyang Xin talks about the fundamental elements that make up a service. Without a clear understanding of these elements it's impossible to design and express services. We also talk about the core skills a service designer needs.
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EPISODE GUIDE
1:53 - First encounter with Service Design.
6:28 - How can we express a service?
14:21 - How many skills do service designers need?
22:28 - What is a service?
27:24 - Expert tip: be an interesting and good human being
29:30 - Big question: what does it mean to be a service receiver?
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ABOUT XIN XIANGYANG
Twitter ➜ https://goo.gl/RLv8rp
LinkedIn ➜ https://goo.gl/FZVNSb
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Sep 22, 2016 • 33min
Adding some Brazilian flavour to the service design mix / Luis Alt / Episode #12
Luis Alt talks about the next generation service providers, the positive and negative aspects of the service culture in Brazil and finally why we need to rethink and humanize the relationship companies have with their customers.
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EPISODE GUIDE
1:14 - First encounter with Service Design.
5:08 - How can we make the service culture better in brazil?
14:02 - Who are the next great service providers?
20:42 - What if we thought about relationships with companies as with humans?
27:41 - Expert Tip: Bridge the gap and start doing.
30:23 - Big question: Are you aware of the impact you have on the world around us?
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ABOUT LUIS ALT
Luis on Twitter ➜ https://goo.gl/RLv8rp
Personal site ➜ https://luisalt.com/
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Sep 8, 2016 • 38min
Understanding Service Design in Asia / Patti Hunt & Kristin Low / Episode #11
Patti Hunt and Kristin Low talk about Service Design in Asia and the lack of urgency for it. We also dive into the topic of Artificially Intelligent services.
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Sep 6, 2016 • 9min
Service Design Trend Report / Summer 2016
In this episode we talk about the 4 major trends that are shaping the service design field in the summer of 2016. These trends have emerged as patterns from the first 10 episodes of the show.
What do you consider the most important trend? Join the discussion and share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Aug 11, 2016 • 33min
Service Design is fractal / Andy Polaine / Episode #10
Andy shares his ideas on the fractal nature of service design. Or in other words at level should you be designing a service to really make an impact.
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EPISODE GUIDE
1:20 - First encounter with Service Design.
4:21 - How far can Service Design go (the fractal nature of SD)?
11:27 - How can we design services end to end?
20:03 - Who are / is doing design from within?
28:15 - Expert Tip: become a more interesting person.
31:32 - Big Question: why do you see the world that way?
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ABOUT ANDY POLAINE
Personal site ➜ http://www.polaine.com/
Andy on Twitter ➜ https://goo.gl/Jpn6Sp
LinkedIn profile ➜ https://goo.gl/K55F3N
LINKS FROM THE SHOW
Fjord Evolution ➜ https://goo.gl/yw2yq9
Service Design: From Insight to Implementation (book) ➜ https://goo.gl/2yGRBv

Jul 28, 2016 • 29min
Linking Service Design to business value / Damian Kernahan / Episode #9
Damian Kernahan talks about why service design needs to do a better job at articulating the value it creates for business and consumers.
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EPISODE GUIDE
1:32 - First encounter with Service Design.
5:50 - What if we actually implemented more service design work?
13:48 - What is the clear value proposition of service design?
18:34 - How can we link service design and customer experience improvement to value?
24:17 - Expert tip: read (a lot)!
27:04 - Big question: what is the killer value proposition for the service design category, whats the biggest problem it solves?
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ABOUT DAMIAN KERNAHAN
Damian on Twitter ➜ https://goo.gl/30Q3TG
LINKS FROM THE SHOW
Proto Partners ➜ http://goo.gl/4zWRX3
Journey to the interface (pdf) ➜ http://goo.gl/7gxlXi
Running Lean (book) ➜ https://goo.gl/qBsXAP
Kerry Bodine ➜ http://goo.gl/BwjzEl

Jul 14, 2016 • 39min
The secret to building a customer centric culture / Dave Gray / Episode #8
Dave Gray talks about why understanding Organisational culture is more important than ever and how norms, habits and behaviours shape that Organisational culture.
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EPISODE GUIDE
1:22 - First encounter with Service Design.
3:49 - How might we create more customer centric organisations?
10:02 - Why do I say culture is norms, habits and behaviours?
25:19 - How can we shift the internal workings?
30:05 - Beginners tip: find those peers and start learning from them!
32:15 - Daves question for the viewers.
32:45 - A brief insight into Liminal Thinking.
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ABOUT DAVE GRAY
@DaveGray ➜ https://goo.gl/P3W3Me
➜ http://xplaner.com/
➜ https://medium.com/@davegray
LINKS FROM THE SHOW
XPlane ➜ http://goo.gl/5l9Wwu
Culture Map ➜ http://goo.gl/FU6XRo
Gamestorming (the book) ➜ http://goo.gl/B7bQPP
The Connected Company (the book) ➜ https://goo.gl/kjeJc9
Liminal Thinking (the book) ➜ http://goo.gl/K2Cw4m
Liminal Thinking The pyramid of belief (video) ➜ https://goo.gl/TzG52t
Service Design Chapter in St. Louis ➜ https://goo.gl/1bPg22

Jun 30, 2016 • 32min
Getting your boss to prototype customer experience / Adam Lawerence / Episode #7
Adam Lawrence talks about the power of jamming, the relationship between work and play and about using theater as a toolset within service design.
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EPISODE GUIDE
0:49 - First encounter with Service Design.
6:08 - How can we Jam to find our next next big idea?
14:28 - Why do work and play fit well together?
21:10 - What if theater was a toolset?
29:25 - Beginners tip: do research and prototype!
30:32 - Adams question: how can I do this using fewer words?
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ABOUT ADAM LAWRENCE
@AdamStJohn ➜ https://goo.gl/Gx2Wn0
Work * Play * Experience ➜ http://goo.gl/CqrucF
LINKS FROM THE SHOW
Global Service Jam ➜ http://goo.gl/dKJNYv
Global Sustainability Jam ➜ http://goo.gl/xbA0Wy
Global Gov Jam ➜ http://goo.gl/fyEZcR
Applied Improvisation Network ➜ http://goo.gl/EvH6wj
This is Service Design Doing (book) ➜ http://goo.gl/laTuwm

Jun 16, 2016 • 32min
What Service Design can learn from the olympics / Alex Nisbett / Episode #6
Alex Nisbett talks about customer performance, designing great public services and building internal service design capacity.
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EPISODE GUIDE
1:04 - First encounter with Service Design
3:02 - How can we design for Customer Performance?
12:42 - Who are building [service design] capacity?
20:40 - What if public services became better than commercially provided ones?
26:45 - Beginners tip: Go out and make a difference!
28:56 - Question: Will the need for design research disappear?
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ABOUT ALEX NISBETT
@AlexNisbett ➜ https://goo.gl/wl2pEI
Alex on LinkedIn ➜ https://goo.gl/rnjjH1
LINKS FROM THE SHOW
Service Design for Business book ➜ http://goo.gl/fTgXc4
Livework ➜ http://goo.gl/Jsb1dO
Policy Lab UK ➜ https://goo.gl/Ej51pI
Government Digital Service ➜ https://goo.gl/f283YU