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Service Design for Business: A Practical Guide to Optimizing the Customer Experience (ePub eBook)


Service Design for Business: A Practical Guide to Optimizing the Customer Experience (ePub eBook)

eBook by Reason, Ben/Brand Flu, Melvin/Lvlie, Lavrans

Service Design for Business: A Practical Guide to Optimizing the Customer Experience (ePub eBook)

£24.00

ISBN:
9781118988947
Publication Date:
28 Dec 2015
Publisher:
Wiley
Pages:
208 pages
Format:
eBook
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Service Design for Business: A Practical Guide to Optimizing the Customer Experience (ePub eBook)

Description

A practical approach to better customer experience through service design Service Design for Business helps you transform your customer's experience and keep them engaged through the art of intentional service design. Written by the experts at Livework, this practical guide offers a tangible, effective approach for better responding to customers' needs and demands, and provides concrete strategy that can be implemented immediately. You'll learn how taking a design approach to problem solving helps foster creativity, and how to apply it to the real issues that move businesses forward. Highly visual and organized for easy navigation, this quick read is a handbook for connecting market factors to the organizational challenge of customer experience by seeing your company through the customers' eyes. Livework pioneered the service design industry, and guides organizations including Sony, the British Government, Volkswagen Procter & Gamble, the BBC, and more toward a more carefully curated customer experience. In this book, the Livework experts show you how to put service design to work in your company to solve the ongoing challenge of winning with customers. Approach customer experience from a design perspective See your organization through the lens of the customer Make customer experience an organization-wide responsibility Analyze the market factors that dovetail with customer experience design The Internet and other digital technology has brought the world to your customers' fingertips. With unprecedented choice, consumers are demanding more than just a great productthe organizations coming out on top are designing and delivering experiences tailored to their customers' wants. Service Design for Business gives you the practical insight and service design perspective you need to shape the way your customers view your organization.

Contents

Introduction vii Chapter 1 Why Service Design 1 Three Trends That Make Service Design Relevant Today 2 Use Service Design to Deal with Business Ambitions and Organizational Challenges 4 Key Concepts 7 Chapter 2 Foundations: Three Critical Factors in Service Design 15 Movement 17 Structures 32 Behavior 44 Challenges 50 Chapter 3 The Customer Story: Understanding Customers Better Provides the Basis for Customer-Driven Service Improvement and Innovation 53 Get the Basics Right and Achieve Customer Experience Excellence 54 Prevent Customer Irritations and Failures 62 Engage Customers Effectively 70 High-Impact Customer Innovations 78 Chapter 4 Business Impact: Designing a Service around Customers Needs Provides a New Way to Address Age-Old Business Challenges 87 Innovate New Business Concepts 88 Becoming a More Digital Business 96 Achieve Higher Customer Performance 106 Successful Launch and Adoption of a New Product or Service 117 Chapter 5 Organizational Challenge: Using Customer Centricity to Move Your Organization Forward 125 Foster Internal Alignment and Collaboration 126 Deliver Better Staff Engagement and Participation 134 Build a Customer-Centric Organization 141 Building a More Agile Organization 151 Chapter 6 Tools 161 Customer Profiles 162 Customer Insights 164 Customer Journeys 166 Customer LifeCycles 168 Cross-Channel Views 170 Service Scenarios 172 Organizational Impact Analysis 174 Creative DesignWorkshops 177 Acknowledgements 181 Index 183

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