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Kate Tarling

Author of The Service Organization, writing about how large organisations need to change to deliver good services.

  • How organisations need to change, in their structures and leadership, to deliver services that work. Written from experience inside large public and private organisations.

  • One of the first dedicated service design consultancies, founded in London in 2001, with studios in Europe and South America and a long record of published thinking.

  • A ServDes 2025 paper introducing a project-centred template for examining how social, political and ecological forces enable or constrain design work. A proposed tool whose evaluation is ongoing.

  • Department for Education guidance on the ethics of researching colleagues: pressure to take part, voluntary participation, authority and confidentiality.

  • A guide to using service design inside organisations, aimed at people who need to make the case for it as much as do it.

  • Journey management software for organisations that want to keep many journey maps consistent and connected to opportunities and delivery work.