Ragnhild Halvorsrud
SINTEF, Oslo, Norway
Eunji Lee
SINTEF, Oslo, Norway
Ida Maria Haugstveit
SINTEF, Oslo, Norway
Asbjørn Følstad
SINTEF, Oslo, Norway
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Published in: ServDes.2014 Service Future; Proceedings of the fourth Service Design and Service Innovation Conference; Lancaster University; United Kingdom; 9-11 April 2014
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 99:28, p. 291-300
Published: 2014-06-25
ISBN: 978-91-7519-280-2
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The increasing interest in service design implies the need for more formal approaches to the analysis; conceptualization; and implementation of services. In particular; this is critical when multiple actors; such as designers; developers; and managers are to apply a service design approach for a customer centric transformation of the organization and its service offerings. In this paper; we present key components of a formal language for the modelling of customer journeys. The language is developed; in particular; to support customer journey analysis and design; its formal character is meant to facilitate an unambiguous communication of a customer journey throughout a service organization; and to bridge the current gap between fuzzy front-end service design and service implementation. Application of the language is illustrated through case studies from a large web-based service provider and a power company.
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