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- 2014
- Chapter
Customer Experience and Service Design
By: Uday S. Karmarkar and Uma R. Karmarkar
While services already dominate economic activity in all major economies in the world, there has been curiously little investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the... View Details
Keywords: Service Design; Service Management; Product Design; Service Operations; Customer Satisfaction; Service Industry
Karmarkar, Uday S., and Uma R. Karmarkar. "Customer Experience and Service Design." Chap. 7 in Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater? edited by Enzo Baglieri and Uday Karmarkar, 109–130. Springer, 2014.
- October 2014 (Revised January 2016)
- Case
IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design
By: Ryan W. Buell and Andrew Otazo
The case describes IDEO, one of the world's leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape,... View Details
Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Service Management; Service; Design; Service Delivery; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Peru
Buell, Ryan W., and Andrew Otazo. "IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design." Harvard Business School Case 615-022, October 2014. (Revised January 2016.)
- November 2015 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design
By: Ryan W. Buell
The case describes IDEO, one of the world's leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape,... View Details
- December 2015
- Case
IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design
By: Ryan W. Buell and Andrew Otazo
The case describes IDEO, one of the world's leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape,... View Details
Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Service Management; Service; Design; Service Delivery; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Peru
Buell, Ryan W., and Andrew Otazo. "IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 615-703, December 2015.
- January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
- Exercise
New Service Design Exercise
By: Frances X. Frei
Used in the second module of a course on Managing Service Operations, which addresses the design of sustainable service models (606-031). Provides an opportunity for students to design a new service offering, paying careful attention to the link between strategic... View Details
Frei, Frances X. "New Service Design Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 605-053, January 2005. (Revised March 2008.)
- Research Summary
Service Excellence by Design
By: Frances X. Frei
This research addresses how to design sustainable service models that deliver ongoing value to both customers and the firm. In particular, the research reveals three principles of effective service management (see
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- April 2006
- Background Note
Designing Sustainable Service Models
By: Frances X. Frei
Taught as the second module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations. Addresses the challenge of designing service models that effectively incorporate a customer operating role, as well as how to align operations to deliver value to both the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Customers; Design; Managerial Roles; Consumer Behavior; Service Operations; Power and Influence; Value
Frei, Frances X. "Designing Sustainable Service Models." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-031, April 2006.
- 08 Jul 2016
- Video
Human-Centered Service Design Professor Ryan Buell
- Jan 23 2017
- Interview
Rethinking Service Design and Delivery
- November 2018
- Case
frog design
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
The case follows the genesis and development of Palo, a radical urban communications hub designed to replace payphone booths on Manhattan’s city streets, through a joint venture between frog design and a venture-backed firm LQD WiFi. The case explores the complexity of... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Prototyping; User Experience Design; Design Heuristics; Telecommunications; Urban Systems; Communication Technology; Urban Scope; Innovation and Invention; Design; Product Development
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "frog design." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 118-707, November 2018.
- April 2008
- Module Note
Service Design in the Context of Customer-Operators
By: Frances X. Frei
Taught as the second module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role (606-092). Addresses the design and management of service operations with significant customer operating roles. The focus is on... View Details
Frei, Frances X. "Service Design in the Context of Customer-Operators." Harvard Business School Module Note 608-134, April 2008.
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
New Service Design Exercise (TN)
By: Frances X. Frei
Teaching Note for [605053]. View Details
- September 1992
- Case
Ontario Training Corp.: Service Design and Service Mapping
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Ontario Training Corp.: Service Design and Service Mapping." Harvard Business School Case 693-015, September 1992.
- Teaching Interest
DESIGN THEORY AND PRACTICE ES285
By: Roberto Verganti
Any organization, business or venture grounds its value on how “meaningful” are its products (functionally, symbolically and emotionally). Design Theory and Practice (DTP) empowers students to create products that are meaningful, to people who use them and to... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Design; Leadership; User Experience Design; Design; Strategy; Technology; Product Design
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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design
Where can I begin begin my research for the new service design exercise? The following are highly selected resources for MSO New Service Design... View Details
- July 1988
- Case
Westlake Cinemas: Designing a Service Guarantee
Hart, Christopher. "Westlake Cinemas: Designing a Service Guarantee." Harvard Business School Case 689-004, July 1988.
- August 1995
- Teaching Note
Crown Equipment Corporation: Design Services Strategy TN
By: Gary P. Pisano
Teaching Note for (9-991-031) and (9-991-032). View Details
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IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology
Featured Case IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design The multimedia case takes viewers behind the scenes of a human-centered design company, IDEO, as they embrace the shifting... View Details
- January 2002
- Case
Intrinsix: Managing Growth at an Electronic Design Service Company
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Intrinsix is a 15-year-old semiconductor design services company that wants to continue its growth and market reach and appears to be ready for an initial public offering (IPO). This case leads up to this strategic decision point by tracing the growth of Intrinsix from... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Intrinsix: Managing Growth at an Electronic Design Service Company." Harvard Business School Case 602-067, January 2002.