Digital Service Design (5cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Content scheduling

• Intro to the course content, team project and assignments, team building for the team project • Developing service business models and strategy Team project brief: Building a business model for a service company • Service Design methods and tools Team project brief: Choosing service design methods and tools • Personas and tools Team project brief: Creating personas • Service Concepts Team project brief: Building a Service Concept • Online services and OVP • Service channels and GTA/CTA Team project brief: Creating the OVP and service channels • Developing service processes Team project brief: Designing Service Blueprints For a more detailed plan, pls see Oma two weeks before the course starts.

Objective

The student acknowledges the impact of digital services for competitive advantage and is able to develop digital business models. The student can design digital service concepts and develop services within a multichannel environment for different types of stakeholders. The student is able to create online value propositions for different types of stakeholders. The student is able to develop, plan and implement the ways companies can acquire, sell, serve and retain customers for digital services, and is familiar with digital service channels, tools, solutions and platforms. The student is able to plan and implement a service development project for a new or existing digital service.

Content

• Developing service processes for different types of stakeholders • Developing digital service business models and digital strategies for different types of stakeholders • Service design and agile methods and tools for different types of stakeholders • Digital service concepts • Digital service channels, tools, solutions and platforms • Planning and creating value online

Location and time

Online course, Zoom meetings, see schedule on Oma

Materials

• Material from lectures • Curedale, Robert: Service Design, Process & Methods (any edition ok but not available as an e-book on MetCat) • Stickdorn, Marc, This is service design methods (available as an e-book) and This is service design doing (available as an e-book) (any edition ok.) • Wirtz and Lovelock, Essentials of Service Marketing, 3 rd ed. Pearson 2018 or earlier (no e-book on MetCat) • Chaffey & Smith: Digital Marketing Excellence: Planning, Optimizing and Integrating Online Marketing, Routledge 2017(available as an e-book)

Teaching methods

• Online lectures and online videos • Pre-assignment to be done before the first lecture (0-10 p.) • Team project: A service development plan presented as a screencast video (1-3 students/team) (0-90p.) • Peer reviews of team projects (individual written assignment) (pass/fail)

Employer connections

Teamproject for a company chosen by the team

Exam schedules

No exams, but: • The team project video on Oma by end of June 2026 • Peer reviews of team project videos (2nd individual assignment) by 1.August 2026 OBS! Course Grading in August 2026

International connections

NA

Completion alternatives

NA

Student workload

Online Lectures: 20 hours. Two individual assignments and a service development plan in teams: 115 hours

Qualifications

Completed higher education degree (Bachelor's level)