Blended spaces, cross-channel ecosystems, and the myth that is service
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Slide deck from paper presented at ServDes 2016, Copenhagen. Full paper available in conference proceedings: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/article.asp?issue=125&article=050
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Blended spaces, cross-channel ecosystems, and the myth that is service
- 1. Blended spaces, cross-channel ecosystems, and the myth that is service Bertil Lindenfalk & Andrea Resmini ServDes 2016, Copenhagen
- 2. W. J. Mitchell, Me++, 2004 “once there was a time and a place for everything; today, things are increasingly smeared across multiple sites and moments in complex and often indeterminate ways”
- 3. today, affordable, mobile, consumer-grade computing is mainstream: smartphones, tablets, sensors, ambient appliances, and wearables allow human-information interaction everywhere, all the time
- 4. digitization and constant read/write access to information have blurred the distinction between products and services
- 5. people freely connect often competing products and services in emergent choreographies
- 6. D. Norman, Systems Thinking: A Product Is More Than the Product, 2009 “the point of a product is to offer great experiences to its owner, which means that it offers a service”
- 7. services are usually described either in terms of what they do or by reflecting on the different elements they consist of Grönroos, 2007; Vargo & Lusch, 2008; Blomkvist, 2014.
- 8. we argue that this is a reductionist approach whose usefulness is greatly diminished when it comes to capturing experiences
- 9. the myth that the service designer can design a perfectly bounded artifact and simply drop it in place within a dynamic environment still holds fast and unquestioned at least in the practice
- 10. N.Fein, Cocktail bar and restaurant at Hunts Point Market, the Bronx, NYC Black & White (http://www.nycbw.com/page/5/)
- 11. to properly counter the risks of simplification and reductionism, we argue for a shift from a holistic perspective to a systemic approach
- 12. R. Armson, Growing Wings on the Way, 2011
- 13. it also implies a shift from the idea of service to that of experience taking place in cross-channel ecosystems in blended space
- 14. a cross-channel ecosystem results from actor-driven choice, use, and coupling of channels, either belonging to the same or to different systems, within the context of the goals and desired future state actors intend to achieve, explicitly or implicitly
- 15. cross-channel ecosystems are semantic constructs that straddle digital and physical spaces, locations, devices, and contexts
- 16. cross-channel experiences identify a blended space of opportunity for the designer to intervene in, more than a finite artifact that can be fully managed
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- 21. design is a pragmatic intervention to maximize social or business opportunities and minimize individual or organizational pain through a recast of one or more specific channels or touchpoints
- 22. interventions within an ecosystem broker between the different instances presented by the ecosystem itself, the actors, and the designers’ own vision
- 23. this creates an emergent structure and introduces a loss of control that goes way beyond user-centered perspectives
- 24. the emergent structure resulting from the actors’ joining individual channels is also a blended, physical / digital, space
- 25. “a blended space is as a space where a physical space is deliberately integrated in a close-knit way with a digital space” D. Benyon, Spaces of Interaction, Places for Experience, 2014
- 26. as a multitude of actors freely joins independent channels, a blended space of services, contexts, and locations is articulated as a digital/physical ecosystem
- 27. cross-channel ecosystems are service supersets, unbound, actor-constructed, unfinished, and transient
- 28. they transcend the traditional limits encountered by service design practices focusing primarily on organization-bound and organization-controlled systems
- 29. they are a digimodernist construct, fully acknowledging its computer-derived textuality of haphazardness, evanescence, and anonymous, social authorship
- 30. design focuses on the interdependencies of significant existing, available, or unused elements in the actor-driven ecosystems, regardless of ownership
- 31. their complexity and emergent nature, their unfinished, evanescent onwardness requires a systemic framing built around the idea of actor-driven experiences
- 32. designing services as a collection of related and relatively static touchpoints is eminently postmodern and unavoidably reductionist in nature
- 33. it’s a way of framing services which is generally neglecting the real-world usage patterns employed by actors to reach a desired state, inward-focused, artificially organization-bound, and falling short of accounting for the resulting complexity
- 34. this is the myth that is service, one of change and distance: under an illusion of completeness, services are designed within the same constraints and under the same assumptions that products are
- 35. we propose that a way to move forward is through a systems thinking approach and the conceptualization of cross-channel experience ecosystems as formalized in IA
- 36. reframing the problem space through the idea of experience rather than service
- 37. and going for a larger strategic impact as a way to set up the ecosystem for value creation for both actors and organizations
- 38. thank you bertil.lindenfalk@ju.se - @BerraMakeIt andrea.resmini@ju.se - @resmini