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Service Design for Business

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

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  • 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.

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

  • A journal article examining the contextual and organisational factors that limit service designers' ability to address power dynamics in their work.

  • Co-author of Service Design: From Insight to Implementation, host of the Power of Ten podcast, and a writer on design at many scales.

  • A 2021 paper proposing a power literacy framework for service designers, covering privilege, access, goals, roles and rules. Open access copy from TU Delft.

  • Professor of service design at Köln International School of Design since 1995 and founding president of the Service Design Network.