As part of the ongoing court appeal from Samsung, the Supreme Court of the USA has released supporting documentation (link), much of it about the value  of design. It is worth reading for a couple of reasons. Firstly because the list of contributors is a whose who of design names including Dieter Rams, Lord Foster, […]
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Tor Andreassen from the Centre for Service Innovation (link) recently sent me a link to the New York Times article, reporting some work from England about how self-service checkouts encourage or even result in stealing. This is work from the UK, that has also been reported during the summer in the British press, which I find […]
Think like a patient, act like a tax-payer: This was one of the more interesting take-aways from Simon Stevens’ recent speech about the new focus of the National Health Service in the UK. Although the sentence might be seen as a bit of cheap spin, I think that if most health services asked themselves if they […]
Sony saved by Services?
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I just came over this graph from the splatf blog (link) showing how consumer electronics stands for a huge amount of sales at Sony, but generally, little or no profit. In fact is regularly goes into the red. However, services, although not generating as much income as consumer, are more regularly in the black. Sony […]
Touch-point cards now available
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Quite a lot of people have liked the touch-point cards and have been spreading the word about how useful they are in service innovation projects. I have received several emails requesting sets, but have been unable to deliver. The first two print runs of the cards went very quickly. Now, I’m pleased to say that […]
There seems to be a major gap between businesses’ view of design as essential partner in innovation projects and research that shows the value of design. This is something I have been thinking about for a long time, and my experience is that companies have to experience the value of design to be able to […]
After writing the last post about Jonathan Reynolds presentation about Service Innovation I started to think of great examples of service innovation in Norway. One which I admire greatly is the Statoil coffee deal. This is a deal from one of the leading petrol station chains in which you buy a coffee cup for 99NOK […]
Service Innovation
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Jonathan Reynolds from SAID Oxford held a very interesting presentation at BI last week. His theme was Service-Innovation and he took a broad look at the field. He showed that Norway is not in the top league of service innovations, but is not trailing by much either and gave some interesting updates on facts: 1. […]