Comments on Teaching Service Design

#ServiceDesign Teacher and Practitioner, Vincenzo Di Maria work focuses on socially responsive design and innovation ranging from products to services and experiences. He trained as a designer at Central St. Martin’s College of Art Design in London, where he’ll be running the Service Design Summer Course the first two weeks of August this year. The Read More …

The Marriage in Lean Service Design

This may sound like Abraham Maslow’s saying, “If all you have is a hammer; everything looks like a nail” and if it does, I will admit that my principles and practices are with a Lean based approached. Most of the work I have seen to date in Service Design has been educational or Public Sector Read More …

A Lean Service Design Approach to Gaming your Training

#Gamification continues to be a hot subject. Gartner Group predicts Gamification will be a key trend that every CIO, IT planner and Enterprise Architect must be aware of as it relates to business. I think it goes deeper than that. A primer on Gaming with a Mindmap can be found at the Core Concepts of Read More …

The Two Worlds of Service Design

#VDMDesign aka Vincenzo Di Maria is a service designer and co-founder of Common Ground. His work focuses on socially responsive design and innovation ranging from products to services and experiences. He trained as a designer at Central St. Martin’s College of Art Design in London, where he’ll be running the Service Design Summer Course the Read More …

An Economist who practices Service Design

Economist by education, Sylvain Cottong has spent his career at the intersections of business, society, technology, science & culture, with the value of design for process, service & product development and more generally with leadership & innovation. He lives & works in Luxembourg and Berlin. Sylvain is my guest next week on the Business901 podcast Read More …

Uncommon Thoughts about Service

In the podcast An Uncommon Way of Thinking about Service Design, Anne Morriss discusses the four universal truths outlined in her book, Uncommon Service. The four truths are: You can’t be good at everything. Someone has to pay for it. It’s not your employees’ fault. You must manage your customers. This is a transcription of Read More …