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Feature Designing Motivation or Motivating Design? Exploring Service Design, motivation and behavioural change

Designing Motivation or Motivating Design? Exploring Service Design, motivation and behavioural change

Motivation researcher Edward Deci has suggested that if we want behavioural change to be sustainable, we have to move past thinking of motivation (...)

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Cross Discipline Workshop Insights

Workshop Insights

The workshop explored how different disciplines can collaborate to design successful solutions to social challenges.

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Cross Discipline Designing for the masses

Designing for the masses

Recent statistics show that 99% of all enterprises in the EU are Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs).

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Cross Discipline Performing Arts and Service Design

Performing Arts and Service Design

The relationship between performing arts and services is not a new topic in academic discussions. Grove and Fisk (1983) pointed out the theatrical nature of services in their services theatre framework.

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Cross Discipline Practice of Service Design for tourism initiative

Practice of Service Design for tourism initiative

This article aims at bringing the approach of Service Design to the practices of tourism services in order to highlight the potential of the dialogue between these two fields of knowledge.

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Cross Discipline The rise of smart services in business

The rise of smart services in business

How to build an intelligent business with the co-design of Service Design and Service Engineering

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Feature Workshop Insights Design Thinking

Workshop Insights Design Thinking

Hands on Service Design challenge using Design Thinking principles as a point of view.

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Feature Key principles of how to make Service Design stick in health

Key principles of how to make Service Design stick in health

With predictions of a £20 billion funding gap in the NHS’s annual spending from 2011, it is argued that at no other time in its history has the NHS needed innovation for service delivery as much as it does now.

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Feature Creating tribal affiliation

Creating tribal affiliation

As humans, the drive to connect with others is a powerful force. Of all the years spent on research to understanding tribal affiliation, inclusion, identity, and shared cohesion, it’s only recently that businesses have taken notice.

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Feature Motivating employees

Motivating employees

Consumer-driven insights. On-point strategy. Impeccable execution. A rich brand experience. And millions of advertising dollars to drive customers to the business. This sounds like a winning combination, right?

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Feature Service Design and behavioural change

Service Design and behavioural change

The academic activity relating to behaviour normally lies with psychologists, sociologists or pedagogues from various disciplines, each of whom represent different models of understanding behaviour and how to influence it.

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Feature Workshop Selling Service Design

Workshop Selling Service Design

This workshop was a facilitated session on selling Service Design to and within organisations.

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Feature Service Design put to the test

Service Design put to the test

Western Finland Design Centre MUOVA and Hanken School of Business put Service Design to the test in a two-year research project, Desire, which studied how market-oriented Service Design renews innovation processes.

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Feature Exploring healthcare

Exploring healthcare

In August 2008, three different groups came together to undertake an experiment.Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) School of Design brought experience researching and teaching about Service Design, as well as a group of students looking to get their feet wet.

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Feature Mind your own Business

Mind your own Business

Data is the new oil and the money is in refining it to create valuable services that customers cannot live without. In this article, Ben Reason from live|work shows how creating service that meet the real needs of business customers can help you get the most from your data.

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Feature Do you really need that iPhone App?

Do you really need that iPhone App?

Ways to evolve services in a changing technology environment

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