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Service design is a holistic, people-centred approach that maps and shapes entire systems [from front-line customer touchpoints to internal processes and team ways of working] to create seamless, valuable experiences. It uses research from a range of sources to solve real problems and deliver consistent quality across every interaction.

It’s not just a workshop or a journey map. It’s a way of working that integrates research, co-creation, and experimentation, turning ideas into measurable outcomes and meaningful change.

Organisations that get it don’t treat service design as a one-off project. They understand that if customer needs are always evolving, then the way they serve them needs to evolve too. That means structuring operations around how customers actually experience the business, not how the org chart is drawn.

Some call this Journey Management: a way to organise around the journeys that matter, with clear ownership, performance measurement, and continuous improvement across the full end-to-end experience, not just the silo you happen to sit in.

A service design approach typically includes:

• Setting vision, goals, and objectives to define what success looks like
• Research from internal and external sources (including capturing feedback from ideal customers) to surface insights, frustrations, and benchmarks
• Journey mapping to capture, visualise, and manage key experiences
• Process improvement to align the back-end with the front-end
• Opportunity creation and prioritisation to focus on high-value change
• Experimentation and rapid prototyping to test solutions early and often
• Cross-functional collaboration to unlock progress and breakdown silos
• And big culture shifts — towards continuous learning and improvement

We typically work with mid-sized to large organisations, often with multiple service lines, complex operations, and significant regulatory or growth pressures. That said, our approach scales up or down depending on the challenge. Whether you're tackling a specific pain point or transforming end-to-end, we meet you where you are.

Building rich insights starts with gathering evidence from a wide range of sources.

Qualitative sources like interviews, and observations, for example, and quantitative data such as analytics, surveys, NPS scores, and operational KPIs.

Strong insights are formed when these signals are organised correctly. Examples include: customer needs, pain points, quotes, behaviours, and trends — each tied to specific stages of the user journey.

We connect multiple data points that repeat across journeys and personas and build themes, and this layering helps ensure insights are credible, actionable, and context-aware.

Once organised, they act as fuel for opportunity creation. Whether that’s a measurable objective to improve performance or a “how might we” statement to explore new solutions. We've found that the more structured and visible your insights are, the faster and smarter your teams can move.

• Financial Services
• Digital Banking
• Utilities
• Gambling
• And other customer-critical service industries