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"Business Impact of Service Design"
The second issue of Touchpoint in 2010 will focus on Service Design and its impact on business. The articles do not only address the financial side of this topic but also discuss social and structural changes.
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"Service Design and Behavioural Change"
Although the relationship between design and behaviour is not obvious at first glance, design can, in many aspects, intentionally become the agent or tool that helps influencing the behaviour of people such as customers, employers and employees. This fourth issue of Touchpoint gives an insight view of theoretical models and practical projects dealing with behavioural change as well as explorations of the role of motivation and the borders between social marketing and Service Design. The health sector is one strong focus but also the issue of energy consumption has been explored. Find lots of interesting and inspiring cross fertilisations inside this new issue!
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"Beyond Basics"
Based on the second international Service Design Conference in October ’09, entitled “beyond basics”, this third issue of Touchpoint invites you to dive into the conference’s discussions and reflections. You will find a diverse collection of contributions reflecting most of the presentations and workshops that took place.
After the first Service Design Conference in 2008, addressing the basics of Service Design, this year’s conference dug deeper into the field. A vivid mix of different presentations, workshops and papers were presented in order to provide you with academic and practical expertise from renowned international players in the Service Design field.
Service design is a discipline with many touchpoints to other areas of expertise. Based on this, the conference showed many interesting topics that are collected and reflected on in the third issue of Touchpoint. Structured in different clusters, the articles show a wide range of topics that go “beyond the basics” of Service Design: The issue features Service Design specific theories, methods and perspectives, the impact of Service Design on business success and its appliance in different business settings, the influence of Service Design on the behaviour of people within service systems, and interdisciplinary cross-overs.
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"Health and Service Design"
The second issue of Touchpoint, the sdn's Service Design Journal, is out now! Entitled "Health and Service Design", this brand-new issue features articles of Service Design and/or healthcare experts such as Julia Schaeper, Lynne Maher and Helen Baxter (NHS), Lavrans Løvlie (liveIwork), Ben Reason (live|work), Mark Mugglestone (NHS) and John-Arne Røttingen (Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services), Tine Park (Designit) and Christine Janae-Leoniak (Mayo Clinic) as well as interviews with representatives from these areas.
The health sector contributes to everyone’s wellbeing, quality of life, and ultimate life expectancy but the sector is also important economically--for health and wellness industries and governments. A balanced relationship between the increase of quality and the reduction of costs is of crucial interest – for patients, providers and payers within our health care systems. Improvements within this system not only take advantage of innovative technologies and medical research findings, but also respect and design the experience of patients and caregivers– taking them as serious partners in a process of preserving or restoring health. There are opportunities to rethink service offerings, service delivery systems and organizational structures, hierarchies and, last but not least, the quality of interactions among people and machines. New ideas might even revolutionize existing physician/patient traditions.
This volume of Touchpoint explores the individual, social and economic relevance of health systems and the potential of Service Design to redesign and reinvent service offerings, service processes and service interactions.
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"What is Service Design?"
The first issue of the sdn Service Design Journal, Touchpoint, was launched in May 2009. Touchpoint is the first Journal on Service Design worldwide and is published by the Service Design Network, Prof. Birgit Mager being its editor in chief. The very first issue entitled "What is Service Design" explored the basics of Service Design and aimed at creating a forum for discussion and debate amongst service oganizations, professionals, academics, students and educators of Service Design. Birgit Mager, Oliver King, Lavrans Lovlie, Fran Samalionis and Marcel Zwiers are the contributors to the first edition. The journal features news and trends, interviews, insightful discussions and case studies.
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