Is your Customer part of your Inner Circle?

Are you looking for meaningful feedback? Are you having productive dialogue with your customers? Have you ever wanted to know instantly what your customers were thinking? In this short video, I demonstrate the quickest and easiest way to get closer to your customers. In fact, I have not found a more productive and efficient method. Read More …

Does Lean create Innovative Companies?

Many people only view Lean as a methodology to reduce waste, improve flow and drive internal processes. Many have even hijacked the term customer and created “internal customers” and lose sight of the true customer and the marketplace. These companies do not recognize Lean as a business process that strengthens and grows a company through Read More …

Are you Smarter than a Monkey with your Money?

A surprising outcome when monkeys are given the same choices as humans. Find out how risk adverse you are… About: Dr. Laurie Santos, who has been called “the Monkey Whisperer,” studies the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. She’ll discuss her recent work on “monkey economics” and will Read More …

The Show Business side of Service Design

Next weeks podcast guest, Adam St. John (aka Adam Lawrence) of Work-Play-Experience discusses the theatrical aspect of service design and how theater can play a vital role in developing your customer experience. Adam is a professional comedian, business consultant and writer with a background in psychology and the automotive industry. For years he has been Read More …

Path to Participation

In Lean Marketing, Service Design and Design Thinking, we typically use the Customer Journey Map to describe the journey of a user through a series of touchpoints. Mapping this in detail and defining the resources, people, budget and marketing collateral to match each of these steps is imperative. After an organization does this and is Read More …

What is Service Design?

Continuum and the AIGA convened a group of top business leaders and innovators from a variety of backgrounds and industries, including Disney, Facebook and Zipcar, to discuss how designing a service experience with purpose can transform a company’s image and make people’s lives better. Designing Better Service Experiences from Continuum on Vimeo. Watch this at Read More …