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Redesigning Thinking: How Service Design Is Solving Our 21st Century Challenges

AUTHOR Grinyer, Clive
PUBLISHER de Gruyter (06/16/2025)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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The world doesn't work. But there is a way to make it work - it's called design.

In Redesigning Thinking, Clive Grinyer discusses service design - the holistic process of managing all the points in a customer's journey with the provider, from the initial introduction down to the last customer interaction, with the purpose of designing each interaction and experience in a way that is user-friendly and relevant to the customer. He argues that design is a way to think more humanely, to create better business and navigate through complex systems to achieve successful outcomes. Sharing inspirational stories and examples of the power of design from around the world, he explores how service design methods combine data and research to understand how context and creativity can be used as a problem-solving tool to engineer, reframe, and deliver effective solutions and help organizations succeed.

Whether you are a leader in business or in government, a practicing designer looking to use your skills to enhance your impact, or a student keen to use your creativity to improve the prospects of the planet and society, this book will challenge you to change how you think. It will help you make informed decisions and craft products and services designed to create solutions for the people who use them.

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ISBN-13: 9783111392820
ISBN-10: 3111392821
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 266
Carton Quantity: 15
Product Dimensions: 6.69 x 0.56 x 9.61 inches
Weight: 0.95 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Illustrated
Country of Origin: DE
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Business & Economics | Development - Business Development
Business & Economics | Management - General
Business & Economics | Leadership
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The world doesn't work. But there is a way to make it work - it's called design.

In Redesigning Thinking, Clive Grinyer discusses service design - the holistic process of managing all the points in a customer's journey with the provider, from the initial introduction down to the last customer interaction, with the purpose of designing each interaction and experience in a way that is user-friendly and relevant to the customer. He argues that design is a way to think more humanely, to create better business and navigate through complex systems to achieve successful outcomes. Sharing inspirational stories and examples of the power of design from around the world, he explores how service design methods combine data and research to understand how context and creativity can be used as a problem-solving tool to engineer, reframe, and deliver effective solutions and help organizations succeed.

Whether you are a leader in business or in government, a practicing designer looking to use your skills to enhance your impact, or a student keen to use your creativity to improve the prospects of the planet and society, this book will challenge you to change how you think. It will help you make informed decisions and craft products and services designed to create solutions for the people who use them.

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