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The Service Ouroboros: Designing Persona Service Cycles

Sune Klok Gudiksen
Aalborg University, Denmark

Eva Brandt
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark

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Ingår i: 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 99:11, s. 110-121

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Publicerad: 2014-06-25

ISBN: 978-91-7519-280-2

ISSN: 1650-3686 (tryckt), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Many companies investigate new business opportunities in a turn from product to service design. As service offerings expand over time and space; such notions as ‘customer journey’ or ‘service blueprint’ have been suggested to grasp and design the nature of the emergent services. However; we find that there is room for improvement on two levels. First; customer journeys and service blueprint tools could benefit from an empathic customer understanding; that is the design of customer-specific services. Secondly; the existing customer journey and service blueprint tools are less concerned with the cyclic nature of services; by which we mean the dynamics of a customer relationship and its development over time. We report findings from collaborative workshops; in which we challenged two companies to try a new concept and tool we call ‘The service Ouroboros’. We suggest it as a more appropriate way to design various customers’ service cycles.

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service design; service cycles; touchpoint; service ecology; customer journey; empathic design; personas

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