Service Design and Development
Service Design and Development
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DEVELOPMENT
Service Design
Service design is the activity of planning and
arranging people, infrastructure,
communication and material components of a
service in order to improve its quality, and the
interaction between the service provider and
its users.
Service design may function as a way to
inform changes to an existing service or create
a new service entirely.
Service Design Definition
Service delivery
• The combination system • Something that is
of goods and • The facilities, done to, or for, a
services provided processes, and customer
to a customer skills needed to
provide a service
Product Bundle Service
Challenges Of Service Design
Oversimplification
Challenges of Incompleteness
Interpretation service design
Subjectivity
Types of New Services
Major Innovations
Start-up Businesses
Service improvements
Style changes
Types of New Services
Major Innovation
New service driven by information and computer based
technology. E.g first broadcast television services.
Start-up Business
New service for existing market. E.g online banking for
financial transactions.
New service for the currently served
market
New services for the customers of an organisation not
previously available. E.g airline offering internet, fax and
phone services during flights.
Types of New Services
Service line extensions
Extension of existing service line, such as adding new
menu items, new routes. E.g a new university course,
mobile and online banking.
Service improvement
Changes in features of currently offered service
Style Changes
Modest visible changes in appearances. E.g website
redesign or painting aircraft.
• Self Service
• Direct Service
• Pre Service
Service • Bundled
Redesign Service
• Physical
Service
New Service Development Process
Business Strategy Development Or
Review
Review mission & vision
Orientation towards growth
Primary strategic orientations
Prospectors seek to be innovative, searching
out new opportunities and taking on risk.
Prospectors seek to be innovative, searching
out new opportunities and taking on risk.
Analyzers maintain stability
Reactors seldom make adjustments
Cost leadership strategy
New Service Strategy Development
By Defining a new service strategy, the
organization will be in a better position to
begin generating specific ideas
One way to begin is to use the framework
The other one is to use the matrix
Idea Generation
Ideas generated at this phase can be passed
through the new service strategy screen.
many methods and avenues are available for
searching out new service ideas.
Methods:
Interacting with others
Creativity techniques
Concept Development And
Evaluation
Who is the target market and who is the decision
maker in the purchasing process.
What features must the product incorporate.
What benefits will the service provide to the
customer and to the organization.
How will client react to the service.
How the service can be delivered most cost
effectively.
What will be the cost to deliver the service.
Evaluation by employees and customers on
o Target market
o Forecasting of sales volume
o Indication of product positioning
o Competitor reaction
o Specification of new product
development
Financial Assessment
Market synergy
Organizational factors
Market research factors
New Service Development
Four basic characteristics for new service
development are: