Companies have lost control of their brand—if they ever had it. Brand is now what customers feel, think, say, and do about the experiences they have with companies. As a result, customer experience improvement is more important now than ever. How can forward-thinking businesses improve their customer experience?
At our 6 April meetup, Sean Walsh proposed that “if delivering an exceptional customer experience is your destination, service design is a vehicle that will get you there.” This is because service design aims to improve “the interaction between service provider and customers” “so that the service is user-friendly, competitive and relevant to the customers.” In order to ensure their viability, service design also ensures that services are “sustainable for the service provider.”
Sean introduced the service blueprint, a key tool of our trade. The service blueprint follows the customer journey from left to right. From top to bottom, it shows the actions of not only the customer, but also the “front stage” personnel, supporting personnel, internal processes, and internal systems. A good blueprint clarifies complex systems through straightforward visual communication. As a result, stakeholders can identify issues in the customer experience, quickly trace their root causes within the organizational system, and make changes for improvement.
Sean recommended these resources:
- Service Design Tools (website)
- Service Design Network (this professional network)
- Service Design: From Insight to Implementation (book)
- This is Service Design Thinking (book)
Access Sean’s slides here.
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