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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299896403321

Autore

Foglieni Francesca

Titolo

Designing Better Services : A Strategic Approach from Design to Evaluation / / by Francesca Foglieni, Beatrice Villari, Stefano Maffei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-63179-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 115 p. 11 illus.)

Collana

PoliMI SpringerBriefs, , 2282-2577

Disciplina

004.21

Soggetti

Engineering economy

Management

Industrial management

Service industries

Graphic design

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing

Innovation/Technology Management

Services

Interaction Design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides accessible, comprehensive guidance on service design and enables practitioners approaching the discipline for the first time to develop the strategic mindset needed to exploit its innovation potential. The opening chapters trace the origins of service design and examine its links with service innovation, as well as its strategic role in service organizations. It then offers step-by-step guidance on tackling a service design project, explaining the main design elements and indications of various useful design tools. It also introduces the topic of evaluation as a support practice in designing or redesigning better services, and providing evidence concerning the value of service design interventions. The third chapter explores how evaluation is currently approached in service design practice through the analysis of a number



of case studies. Based on these experiences it extensively discusses evaluation, with a particular focus on service evaluation, and explains its importance in supporting service design and fostering innovation throughout the service design process. Further it describes pragmatic directions for setting up and conducting a service evaluation strategy. The concluding chapter uses an interpretive model to summarize the role evaluation could have in service design practice and focuses on interdisciplinary competences that need to be acquired by service designers in order to address the evolution of the discipline. The novel approach adopted in the book fosters the growing interest in design-driven service innovation and assists in realizing its full potential in both the private and the public sector.