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Case Study Fast Stream

Fast Stream

Fast Stream (FS) is the civil service’s scheme to provide graduates, career changers, and people in the civil service a fast track into leadership. Their goals are to optimise diversity in their organisation and identify candidates with leadership potential.


Service Designer: Cyber-Duck

Service Provider: Civil Service Fast Stream

Industry: Government

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Case Study Court Filing Reinvented

Court Filing Reinvented

Riddled with centuries-old procedures and long, winding paper trails, filing is a court process ripe for service transformation. How can legal processes evolve to maximize value and efficiency for both the ministry and the people who need its services?


Service Designer: Johanna Dietrich, Dennis Breen, Ashley Truong, Ron Garcia, Grant Nicol, Alejandro Moreno, Helen Maze

Service Provider: Government of Alberta and Court of King’s Bench

Industry: Professional Services/Other

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Case Study Operation Paws

Operation Paws

Paediatric patients often feel overwhelming perioperative anxiety during their first experience with elective surgery


Service Designer: Valeska Tan, National University of Singapore

Service Provider: n/a

Industry: Healthcare

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Case Study Transforming the US Health System

Transforming the US Health System

To increase the buy-in and empowerment of Healthcare Organizations to create better care pathways for Alzheimer’s Disease in anticipation of emerging treatment options and support implementation.


Service Designer: Mark Rose, Laura Chavira, Maddy Rowland-Roides, Bolette Riis Falk, Emily Rho

Service Provider: Bridgeable

Industry: Healthcare

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Case Studies: Other Indigenous Youth Wellbeing Circles: Emergent Change

Indigenous Youth Wellbeing Circles: Emergent Change

Our challenge was to provide a co-design framework and facilitation to support the client to achieve their Indigenous youth engagement goals within the Planet Youth initiative.


Service Designer: J5 Design – Sydney Johnson, Pamela Downey, Annand Ollivierre

Service Provider: United Way of Calgary and Area, Miskanawah Community Services Association

Industry: Government

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Case Study Service Redesign: Frictionless Payment at Forsyth Farmers’ Market

Service Redesign: Frictionless Payment at Forsyth Farmers’ Market

Apply a Service Design approach to work with and improve upon the service of Savannah, GA’s local food justice organization “Forsyth Farmers’ Market”. This project sought ways to improve and enhance existing services within a local community.


Service Designer: Students of Savannah College of Art and Design: Subin Cho, Carey Lin and Tirath Puni

Service Provider: Forsyth Farmers' Market (FFM)

Industry: Retail

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Case Studies: Government Kin-first Co-design in Child Welfare

Kin-first Co-design in Child Welfare

This service co-design project set out to create a “kin-first” approach at a government agency tasked with the safety of children and youth in a US state of over 7 million people.


Service Designer: Bloom Works, LLC Child Welfare Team

Service Provider: New America’s New Practice Lab in partnership with WA DCYF

Industry: Government

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Case Study Context

Context

Refugees face a myriad of barriers to accessing trusted information, which leads to vulnerability and reliance on their first point of contact. How might we enable refugees easier access to services and resources to help them feel supported while restoring their rights?


Service Designer: Student team: Amruta Supate, Claire Henery, Kasia Bruzda, Ivana Monson, and Madison Cilluffo

Service Provider: Royal College of Art, UK

Industry: Other

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Latest case studies

Case Study Inspiring Action for Teacher Retention from the Inside Out

Inspiring Action for Teacher Retention from the Inside Out

While the impacts of teacher shortages are being felt across the nation, one US state chose to act, addressing the teacher retention issue with an approach rarely taken in the education industry: by placing the ‘teacher experience’ at the heart of their problem-solving.


Service Designer: Accenture Song

Service Provider: Tennessee Department of Education

Industry: Education

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Case Studies: Government Citizen Centric Police

Citizen Centric Police

This project shows how the police in a European country takes a service design approach to strengthen the outside–in perspective in their governance, development and daily operations


Service Designer: PwC Norway: Anders Kjeseth Valdersnes, Ragnhild Stenvaagnes, Marte Andresen, Astrid Langnes Vierdal, Roger Mortensen, Kristian Eide

Service Provider: The Norwegian Police Directorate

Industry: Government

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Case Study Blue Bird

Blue Bird

Design a service to improve health literacy and understanding about palliative care, to make it easier for patients and their families to understand the complexities of terminal illness and receive optimal care.


Service Designer: Shambhavi Ojha, Aniket Chandekar, Anuj Malviya

Service Provider: Not applicable

Industry: Healthcare

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Case Study Designing to Help Save Lives

Designing to Help Save Lives

Identify gaps between the global midwifery education landscape and our existing portfolio, and leverage that into potential high quality service offerings contextualised to needs in new markets, for increased impact on midwifery education globally


Service Designer: Laerdal Medical Midwifery Education team

Service Provider: Laerdal Medical

Industry: Healthcare

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Case Studies: Government Setting a 2030 Vision for Resettlement from Prison into the Community

Setting a 2030 Vision for Resettlement from Prison into the Community

In late 2022, a major UK government department wanted to establish a clear long-term vision for how people in prison are settled into prison, prepared for release and resettled back into the community.


Service Designer: Jeffrey Allen, Isabelle Ohlson, Diana Hidalgo + Policy officials: Harriet Mills, Kate Haseler-Young, Nisha Patel

Service Provider: UK government department and associated agencies

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Other Award Winning Case Study – Nemo

Award Winning Case Study – Nemo

Creating a national single window for managing maritime traffic in Finland, enabling new services for added commercial value.


Service Designer: Pille Tammejõe, Vesa Lindfors, Heimo Laukkanen, Jukka Lepistö,

Service Provider: Fintraffic VTS

Industry: Commercial Services

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Case Studies: Healthcare Save Time, Save Lives

Save Time, Save Lives

The primary challenge was to transform care for major trauma patients at the hospital who is on a journey becoming a major trauma centre.


Service Designer: Ashleen Nee, Linda Klotzbach, YuYu Sun

Service Provider: Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin

Industry: Healthcare

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Case Study Designing a Climate Action Funding Prog. for the Community Business Sector

Designing a Climate Action Funding Prog. for the Community Business Sector

Climate action encompasses minoritised groups/communities’ efforts around carbon emission reduction, food, waste, and transport, among others. However, it is often impeded by wider systemic challenges .


Service Designer: Daniel Tuitt – Service Design Lead, Ahsan Khan - Design Director, Phil Spencer –Project Director, Rebeca Torres – Strategic Design Lead

Service Provider: Climate Labs Design Partner with Power to Change

Industry: Other

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