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Before falling in the quarterfinal to Duluth Denfeld, the North Branch boys soccer team prevailed over Hibbing/Chisholm to win in the first round of Section 7A Championship play. The No. 10 seeded Viking team traveled to Hibbing to square off against the No. 7 seed Bluejackets last Thursday. "When...Read More
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Cantonese Seafood Soup
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|1 , filleted bones and trimmings from fish
|1 , sliced
|1 , chopped
|Chicken stock
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Button mushroom
|8 , halved
|1 Tablespoon
|Frozen shrimp
|10 , Defrosted
|Dry white wine
|2 Cup (32 tbs) (1 Glass)
|Thin spaghetti/Vermicelli
|1 Cup (16 tbs), cooked until just tender
|Lemon juice
|2 Tablespoon (Of 1 Lemon)
|To Taste
|Spinach leaves
|Bean sprouts
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Place the bones and trimmings together with onion, carrot and chicken stock cube in 2 pints (1 liter) water.
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Lacrosse: Eight players score as South Fork boys top John Carroll | Photo gallery
6-0 2nd-half run caps 10-3 win
Wyatt Ripper added two goals and Max Moran had one goal and two assists for South Fork (4-4), which had eight players with at least one goal.
The Bulldogs outscored John Carroll 6-0 in the second half.
"Just (better) ball control," South Fork coach Scott Fletcher said. "We were taking better shots."
Steven Meyer, Connor Elkin, Sean Lautenklos, Wes Rogers and Gabe Costintino added one goal apiece.
Alex Ernst, Chris Ernst and Spencer Brennalt had assists and Ty Riva made seven saves in goal.
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South Fork plays at Park Vista at 7 p.m. March 26.
Jensen Beach 14, Martin County 7: Hope Cotten scored five goals and assisted on another as the Falcons won a District 18 game in Stuart.
Aley Mark added three goals and Kai Mildenberger had two goals and one assist for Jensen Beach (6-3, 4-1 district).
Kim St. John scored two goals, Kelly Hagen had one goal and one assist, and Audrey Robertson had one goal.
Meghan Boosinger and Haley Greenspan had assists and Blake Fordyce made 12 saves.
Carly Cecere scored four goals and Caroline Smith had two goals for Martin County (6-3, 4-2).
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Jensen Beach plays at Wellington at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Martin County hosts Northview (Ga.) at noon Saturday.
Pine School 9, John Carroll 6: Tiffany Laster scored four goals and added an assist as the Knights won a District 18 game in Fort Pierce.
Avery Camp and Olivia Wesel added two goals each for the Knights (3-2, 3-2 district) and Mia Isdaner had one goal.
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Jenny DeNorio and Kim Caudell scored two goals apiece for John Carroll (3-7, 1-7). Clare Santangelo and Connie Madden had one goal each.
Santangelo also had an assist and three draw controls. DeNorio had two ground balls and Madden, Monica Arbona, Maddie Paige and Savannah Northup had one ground ball each.
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A handheld computer is a computer that can conveniently be stored in a pocket (of sufficient size) and used while you're holding it.
A handheld computer is a computer that can conveniently be stored in a pocket (of sufficient size) and used while you're holding it. Today's handheld computers, which are also called personal digital assistants (PDAs), can be divided into those that accept handwriting as input and those with small keyboards. The original handheld that accepted handwriting was Apple's Newton, which was later withdrawn from the market. Today, the most popular handheld that accepts handwritten input is the PalmPilot from 3Com. Philips, Casio, NEC, Compaq, and other companies make handhelds with small keyboards.
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A video tape indexing system in which program broadcast identification information is entered into the system for use in recording the program. When the program is recorded, the system stores indexing information in an index memory. The system monitors a broadcast channel for electronic program guide information that includes titles and usually channel, date, time and length for the titles. The system matches the channel, date, time and length information from the broadcast channel with the identification information entered for the program to be recorded. The title in the broadcast channel associated with the channel, date, time and length information is then associated with the indexing information for the program.
1. A method for selectively storing program data relating to programs a user selects to record, comprising:
receiving identifying information associated with at least one program that the user selects to record;
storing the received identifying information in a memory;
receiving program data transmitted from a remote location associated with a set of televised programs, wherein the stored identifying information is a subset of the received program data;
comparing the stored identifying information with the received program data; and
in response to determining that at least a portion of the stored identifying information matches a portion of the received program data associated with the at least one program that the user selects to record, storing the portion of the received program data, wherein the stored program data comprises information in addition to the stored identifying information associated with the at least one program.
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a microprocessor in communication with the receiver and the memory, configured to
receive and store in the memory identifying information associated with at least one program that the user selects to record, wherein the stored identifying information is a subset of the received program data,
compare the stored identifying information with the received program data,
determine that at least a portion of the stored identifying information matches a portion of the received program data associated with the at least one program that the user selects to record, and
in response to the determination, store the portion of the received program data, wherein the stored program data comprises information in addition to the stored identifying information associated with the at least one program.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/601,224, filed on Jun. 20, 2003, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/467,538, filed on Dec. 18, 1999 which claims priority of U.S. provisional Application No. 60/112,945 filed Dec. 18, 1998, the disclosures of which are incorporated fully herein. This application is also related to application Ser. No. 08/777,799, filed on Dec. 31, 1996, the disclosure of which is incorporated fully herein by reference.
One of the major cost items in the Index Plus+ system is the memory needed to store the information of the shows, which includes channel, date, time, length and title of a show. This practically requires as much memory as is needed for implementation of an electronic program guide (EPG). Also, the number of days in advance of the program telecast that recordings can be scheduled is limited by memory and data bandwidth.
The invention greatly reduces the memory requirement and hence the cost of implementation. It is primarily intended to be implemented without a locally stored EPG data base.
The system includes an input that receives indications identifying a television program broadcast, including one or more of channel, start time, end time, date, day of the week and length. It also includes a video system recorder controller that provides commands to one or more of a video recorder and a tuner to record a television program according to one of the input indications, an index memory that stores video tape identification and video tape index information and the identification indication for television programs recorded under control of the video system recorder controller and a data receiver that receives data comprising titles, sets of television broadcast identifiers, each such set including one or more of channel, start time, end time, date, day of the week and length, and associations between a plurality of the titles and a plurality of the sets of television broadcast identifiers. The title from the data receiver is stored in the index memory and associated with the video tape identification and video tape index information and the identification indication associated with the title.
The concept is first to accept as an input at a user terminal either through (a) VCR Plus+, (b) direct channel/date/time/length (CDTL) input, or (c) instant, i.e., real time, recording, the CDTL information of the show(s) the user wishes to record. In case (a), the Plus Codes are decoded to produce CDTL information. In case (c), the time that the record command is given is read from a real time clock and the channel to which the tuner is set is read at the time of the record command. (There is usually no length information in this case.) In cases (a) and (b), the CDTL information, is stored in an appropriate memory (either in a RAM in the VCR, on the tape, or on a chip attached to the tape cassette, etc.). In case (c), the channel and time of the record command are stored in the memory. In cases (a) and (b), the time component of the CDTL information is compared with the output of a real time clock; when a match occurs, the tuner is set to the channel represented by the CDTL information and the VCR is turned on to record the show the user has selected. In all cases, the location of the program being recorded on the tape is also stored in the memory with the channel and time information. In all cases, date may be replaced with day of the week and length may be replaced with end time or start time and length can be replaced with end time and length. If the recording is performed on the same day as it is programmed to be recorded even the date or day of the week can be omitted. Also, because recording automatically stops at the end of the tape, the length or end time is not critical to the system's operation either.
On a regular basis, e.g., once a day or every other day, all the program titles (and related data) for a specified time period are transmitted with the television signal, e.g., in the VBI. Alternatively, the data may be sent in a distributed way over a long period of time, e.g., 24 hours. In the latter case, the receiving equipment has to monitor the VBI data over the time of data broadcast (e.g., 24 hours). The channel and time of telecast of each program are included with the program title. The title of a program, and other related information such as the theme of the program, if desired, is selectively grabbed only at the users terminals that have already recorded or are scheduled to record that program. Specifically, the channels and times stored in memory at the user terminal are compared with the time and channel transmitted with each title. When a match occurs, the transmitted title is stored in memory. It may be used at the user terminal either together with the CDTL information or as a replacement for the channel and time stored therein. As a result, ultimately the title is stored with the location of each recorded program and other grabbed information in a tape directory in memory at the user terminals. When the user wishes to play a recorded program, the directory is displayed on the screen of a television monitor and the user marks the desired program with an on screen cursor. The VCR then transports the tape to the beginning of the desired program and the desired program is played.
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At time T1, the user inputs a PlusCode (or other form of CDTL information) indicating which program to record; the equipment generates and stores the CDTL information.
At time T2, either before or after the recording of the desired program, a download session occurs in which all the program titles, channels, and times for a given time period are transmitted with the television signal to the users; the VCR of each user flags down only the titles (including other information such as theme related to the program) corresponding to the CDTL information stored at that user terminal, stores these titles in memory or replaces the corresponding CDTL information in the memory with the titles.
After T2, the titles will be utilized by the user for display of directories and selection of recorded programs at that user terminal.
In summary, only the titles of the recorded programs or the programs to be recorded are selectively grabbed and stored, rather than all the programs telecast during a specified time period. In addition, only the CDTL information of the programs to be recorded is also stored. The result is a versatile tape management capability with a small storage requirement.
When the user wishes to play back a recorded program, VCR 18 is connected to monitor 16 through switch 14 b. The user loads the corresponding tape cassette into VCR 18. Microprocessor 20 retrieves the program titles on the tape from memory 22 and feeds this information through VCR 18 to monitor 16 for display as a directory of the tape. When the user selects one of the titles from the on-screen directory, microprocessor 20 transports VCR 18 to the start of the selected program on the tape.
If the CDTL information is stored early enough, the transmitted program titles could be included in a conventional EPG data stream transmitted before the program is recorded and extracted therefrom for the described purpose. (Application Ser. No. 08/728,614, filed on Oct. 10, 1996 is incorporated by reference as if set forth in full herein for a description of how such a data stream is transmitted.) Otherwise, the titles are selectively grabbed from a customized data stream transmitted before and/or after the program is recorded.
In an alternative embodiment, the title information is received using a wireless receiver (not shown) such as a pager receiver.
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Turkey wants international monitors to ensure Gaza truce
Cairo demands Hamas accept immediate cease-fire; Hamas sends delegation to Egypt for talks.
Turkey's foreign minister said Monday his country favors a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas ensured by international monitors, adding that Turkey was willing to contribute to such a mission.
The statement came during a news conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who arrived in Turkey to discuss ways to establish a cease-fire.
"We think that any solution should be guaranteed by the international community and there is a need for a group of international monitors for any solution to be sustainable," Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said. "Turkey would not shy away from such a mission if it were asked to contribute."
Al-Moallem said Turkey and Syria were working toward uniting their efforts to get a cease-fire and get border crossings open.
Turkey has criticized Israel for its ground offensive into Gaza and called on the United Nations to take steps to end the violence.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Israel of committing "inhuman" acts in Gaza that would cause it to self-destruct.
In an interview with Al Jazeera television network, the Turkish prime minister said Israel hurt its relations with Turkey by attacking Gaza, and will be punished.
Erdogan telephoned the prime ministers of Russia, Britain and Italy requesting support to "mobilize the international community" for an urgent truce, a senior government official told The Associated Press. He requested anonymity because he was not authorized to make statements to the press.
In the wake of his visit to the Middle East on Monday, Erdogan voiced his support of Hamas and said Turkey would act as a mediator between the Islamist organization and the United Nations Security Council.
He further stressed that Israel was responsible for violating the six-month cease-fire with Hamas by keeping the coastal strip blockaded.
Egyptian officials said Monday that Cairo was set to demand an immediate cease-fire from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces moved into their 10th day of a military offensive on the coastal territory.
Hamas plans to send a delegation to Egypt on Monday for the first diplomatic talks since the launch of a 10-day-old Israel Defense Forces offensive in the Gaza Strip, an official of the Islamist group has said.
Hamas official Ayman Taha said a Hamas delegation would head to Cairo "answering an Egyptian invitation to hold discussions." A senior Palestinian official said on Friday that Egypt had launched contacts with Hamas to achieve a truce.
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Israel launched a ground offensive deep into the Gaza Strip on Saturday in an effort to stop rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza, which have traumatized southern Israel. Over 500 Palestinians have been killed since the Gaza escalation began, at least a quarter of them civilians, a UN agency said.
The UN chief on Monday urged the divided Security Council to work toward a speedy end to the escalating crisis in Gaza and planned to meet Monday with Arab ministers flying to New York to press for an immediate halt to the violence.
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Planning Your Career, and Leaving Room for Serendipity
Chance favors the prepared mind. --LOUIS PASTEUR
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Most of the more than 200 women interviewed for this book said the following about career planning: Have a plan, but stay flexible. It's sage advice. In a time of rapid technological and organizational change and economic instability, many people are finding that factors beyond their control are affecting their career plans. And many are also taking their careers into their own hands and directing the course of their working lives.
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By any measure, Kathleen Kirkish is an extremely successful woman. She works as director of learning and development for a company that's a household name: the Gap. Earlier in her career, she worked in executive positions for ULTA and Bank of America. But Kirkish didn't originally plan on going into business. In college, she was a liberal arts major. After graduation, she interviewed for a job at a temp agency right as a receptionist was fired. Kirkish was given the receptionist's job largely because she was in the right place at the right time, but that first job sparked her interest in the corporate world and launched her business career.
Such chance events play a role in many people's careers, so much so that a theory of career development called planned happenstance has arisen to take them into account. The planned happenstance model holds that unexpected events and circumstances have a large part in shaping our working lives. Economics, markets, global affairs, and changes to the structures of organizations all determine what our careers look like, as do chance meetings and other unplanned opportunities that come our way. But we're not mere pawns of fate. Planned happenstance theory holds that we can set the stage for serendipity by opening ourselves up to opportunity: by networking, making ourselves visible, exploring our options, and cultivating a flexible and open-minded attitude. We can also ready ourselves to take best advantage of these opportunities by becoming educated, sharpening our skills, learning from feedback, and being more self-aware.
Take the case of oncology nurse Alicia Sable-Hunt, for instance. A chance occurrence led to her starting a company: She baked nutrition bars for her patients, who enjoyed them. Hunt was pursuing an MBA program at the time, and decided to write about the bars for her thesis. She developed a business plan and soon chose to sell the bars commercially. "I didn't have any grand plan to become an entrepreneur," Hunt says. "My goal was just to have the greatest possible impact on the cancer community." Chance played a role in the genesis of Sable's Foods, but Hunt wouldn't have become successful without business acumen, initiative, and a talent for baking.
Research has shown that people who adhere to the tenets of planned happenstance theory are more successful in their careers. Employees who take a proactive stance towards their careers—those who take initiative, solve problems, and work to better their circumstances—have higher salaries and are promoted more often than those who don't. Proactive behavior has been linked to transformational leadership, higher sales, smoother entry into an organization, entrepreneurship, and community service. People with protean career attitudes, or those who direct their own careers in accordance with their values and personal definitions of success, have higher career satisfaction. Likewise, personality traits such as optimism, adaptability, and resilience have long been linked to success. A study of 181 telecommunications employees during a period of organizational change, for instance, found that those who were optimistic and flexible achieved the most career success, and that those who planned and were involved in continuous learning achieved the most job satisfaction.
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January 8, 2011 at 8:53 pm
The Fred Collopy post referenced by Jaimes in this post http://www.colourquotesanalysis.com/entries/codifying_design_thinking_threatens_its_central_value/ was central to the discussions about the definitions of design thinking first time round as I experienced them in the summer of 2009. It certainly sets in context some of my views and thoughts that you reference in your post. Around that time Nick Marsh (@choosenick) also made an incredibly valuable and well considered post about some of these issues and distinctions in defining Service Design here: http://www.choosenick.com/?action=view&url=from-designing-services-to-design-in-services
Jaimes' own interpretation that followed Nick's post I remember finding valuable and contentious at the time… it might still be useful to some people who are looking for a definition:
My own thoughts at around this time can be found here; http://www.fergusbisset.com/blog/2009/06/13/just-do-it-why-in-design-actions-speak-louder-than-thoughts/ and subsequently,
I'm not sure I still agree with everything I said in these posts, but I think there are elements that do still resonate. I think the foremost being that when it comes to attempting to communicate what we do to people like you and Mike setting a boundary on the problem and narrowing the definition to one that is contextually and personally specific and relevant is integral to effective engagement and comprehension. I think that is something that as a discipline and as practitioners Service Designers might be afraid of doing. I also think that's something that TiSDT managed to do well, it provides a benchmark for Service Design circa 2010, as well aggregating a lot of the discussion and definitions that were otherwise just the disparate collection of links such as that above.
I interpret that what you are proposing in this post, is a sort of dynamic definition. One that works on a number of logical levels. Perhaps, as suggested by Jones and Dubberly here http://www.dubberly.com/articles/language-action-model.html Three levels of engagement or interpretation; the phenomenological, the pragmatic and the rational. The rational being what I perceive that you and Mike might need to convince your organisations to invest, whilst the phenomenological being the justification that most designers would cite as being their personal 'logic' for being a service designer (I think you mentioned this in your previous post about ServDes https://georgeblogs.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/servdes-value-trust-transparency-ethics-and-shared-expertise/) That Jones and Dubberly has been massive in shaping my own thoughts on Service Design. I hope it helps the ongoing conversation and anyone else who finds this post in pursuit of a definition of design or anything else for that matter. Much of the thinking in that article, as I now look at it can been seen in my recent post maybe more related to your own discipline ;-) http://www.fergusbisset.com/blog/2010/12/09/3g-knowledge-transfer-dr-annette-boaz-london-school-of-economics-lessons-for-service-design/.
I'll try and develop these ideas further myself in a forthcoming blog post, but in the meantime I hope that you (and Mike) find these links as useful context and as useful resources as you seek your own definition and understanding of Service Design.
January 8, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Hi thanks for sharing your thoughts on this George. Why not keep it simple and use the Buchanan definition and replace Services for Products?
Service Design is the human power of conceiving, planning, and making services (around products; non-tangible products) that serve human beings in the accomplishment of their individual and collective purposes.
Then it comes down to defining 'services' – which include non-tangible products and the services around the fysical products, that by themselves (stand-alone) can evolve into a product.
January 9, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Wow thank you for reflecting on our conversations that we had it was a really uplifting experience talking with you.
My sense that we are entering new exciting times with a perfect storm of many trends colliding excite me that new design opportunities will exist. However I am hoping that we can design products and services that promote human meaning rather than a race for cheap and cheerful!
My other question that we discussed is how we move from complicated design to complex design. During our call I talked about the work that @showers is doing re his Cyefin model and the whole area of complex adaptive systems.
I am so grateful that we had a serendipitous meeting over a year ago (thanks @dominiccampbell) and I am continually learning and will be buying the book.
January 9, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Sorry meant @snowded (Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com) autocorrect!
January 10, 2011 at 9:09 am
I do think we all have to push this service design thinking debate around some more, it still is too shapeless and not 'forming' as well as it should. The IDEO's and Professors that have jumped onto this is one thing but they fail in getting a real connection. You need to keep thrashing this one a little to help us all
January 10, 2011 at 10:18 am
I must admit that I'm no where near able to post a better definition than ones given above but the conversation did a raise few questions.
First of all there seems to be in my view a certain paradox involved in this discussion. At least some people feel there needs to be a formal definitions but at the same time it should be all encompassing and broad enough to include all current and future applications of design thinking. As useful and maybe necessary as such definition would be academically I believe it would do little good in convincing your customers of potential service design benefits and why they should pay for it, like George addressed midway through her text. This to me is a matter of defining proper service design "products".
Other issue is the matter of expertise stated in Fred Collopy's article. I must say that by my own experience it took about 3 months of active reading and research that I could fairly comfortably follow DT or service design related discussions. There's already existing vocabulary and terminology that does not open up to novice very quickly, even with designer background, so is it slightly hypocritical at this stage to claim all inclusive agenda?
So should I ever try to formulate a proper definition my starting point would be this excellent list: user centred, co-creative, sequencing, evidencing and holistic. These are more or less readily understable and as such more approchable by general audience (e.g. potential customers). I recon the defenition would be slightly longer than 2-3 sentences, but SDT does inherently include element of complexity, so I 'd allow little more ellaboration for sake of understandability.
My personal inspiration to SDT was specifically the human aspect, research and practicality, sort of down-to-earth approach that I felt was missing in the design work I did the last decade despite the fancy notions of personal and customer oriented service . Hence I'd find it sad to see SDT turn into either confusing theoretical mess or mere marketing gimmick. Also my views are certainly influenced by the fact that I'm currently working on my own service products to which I try to incorporate SDT elements so maybe the urge for pragmatism strikes through.
George: Sorry for not really answering the question…
P.S. Thanks for everyone for excellet links.
January 10, 2011 at 1:00 pm
George, thank you very much for this post! I am already looking forward to your book review..
The point you (and Mike) are raising is indeed very important for the future development of service design. I would like to use this opportunity to add my own thoughts on this. The reason why I decided to show a variety of definitions instead of just one in the introductory chapter of TiSDT is simply because I don't know one that works for all. This is mostly related to one thing I am still struggling with – also when I read this post and comments above: Referring to service design as a discipline.
To me designing services is not a discipline. SDT is an inter-discipline, offering an effective iterative process and language to combine the knowledge, methods and tools from various disciplines (Here, I like to refer to the title of Geke van Dijke closing keynote of the SDN conference 2010 (first day): No interdisciplinarity without disciplines). Following this thought, you can design services from various perspectives, such as product design, interaction design, graphic design, operations management, strategic management, marketing, engineering, psychology, architecture, and so on.. Depending on each of these backgrounds, you will have a certain focus on the process and outcome and thus define service design slightly different. For me this is one of the problems to agree on a single definition – but on the other hand this also illustrates the strength of this approach: the involvement of different disciplines and thus the knowledge beyond these.
I know that this is far away from an answer for your question. However, when I try to explain what service design is, I always ask for the background of people before I start to answer. It depends on their perspective what they perceive as "new" and "valuable" of this approach. For some it might be the idea to view services as a process – a sequence of touchpoints (e.g. product design students), for other this is not new at all – they are working with this since more than 20 years though with a different terminology (e.g. service marketers), but lack the rather open and creative approach design brings into it.
However, I would appreciate to find an all-embracing definition of service design and I am looking forward to a new round of discussion on this! Btw, thanks Fergus for your recap and link collection!
January 11, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Asking for someone's background before you answer is a brilliant bit of service design. :)
January 10, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Hi George,
My 2cts to pull this discussion out of sheer academics and bring it to business life.
The struggle/journey you describe is something the company I work for went through for the last four years.
It started when the company took a fair number of super UX-people on board from both the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia (UX, interaction and graphic designers). .
They were able to add the customer centric point of view. With their impressive angle and holistic view they energized the feeling of "purpose" within the so far dominating group of business(process) consultants and heavy techies. But after a year the engine stalled.
Reason? Service Design got dominant….. but could not lead. Lack of a solid approach. Lack of making ideas tangible. The SD approach was redesigned over and over. We became puzzled and so became the customers: "I know what you guys did for us the last 13 years, but was the heck is this Service Design Approach? What do you sell? What are your deliverables? Strategy? Consultancy? IT? UX got isolated and frustrated.
To make things worse, the techies started to nickname the UX'rs as PPT-goeroos and went back to their computers to at least make some ideas tangible and logical. Not that it served the end user as it should, but it fitted requirements. They learned how to do that in cooperation with their business proces colleagues.
The turnaround came when the techies embraced agile development. The following example illustrates it well:
A project group had to redesign, and code an end2end process for one of our customers. UX took the Apple angle: one button control, end users rule, optimal Customer Journeys, crowdsourcing. The BP-consultants ridiculed it: not from this earth. They took the typical inside out approach: Requirements, KPI's, Business Case and process boundaries, stating it was impossible and even illegal to do it the way the UX'rs wanted it. Much of the delight of UX ;). Still intrigued, both parties found a way to manage the obstacles: an amazing GUI + outside in process-flow saw the light. They proudly presented it to the techies.
The techies looked at it, smiled and said: can't be done…….. with the customers current IT arcitecture. It would require huge amounts of investments in both Front End, Middle Ware, CRM and back ends. Unless…….Unless the customer was willing to see it as a path that could be developed along in an agile approach. That was the key to cooperation.
The conclusion of my personal experience is that Service Design will never materialize without close and equal expertise from Tech and Economics (business process). It will only happen if all of the aereas admit they don't have the godgiven answers. They are all angles. And it can only be solved step by step….
Martijn Feekes
January 11, 2011 at 11:31 am
You asked me to share my thoughts with u (after that i rt your awesome post).
First of all, i'm an operational manager, facing customers and the internal organizations. I'm quite convinced that only an integrative perspective on customer experience, channels and business functions will result in creating a sustainable business advantage now and in the near future. And that is why I embrace concepts like service design, design thinking and so on. Service design enables professionals within organizations to look more integral and synergestic.
Yes, and service design is fuzzy. Having read some books recently about the topic, I am not yet able to define it yet (oh, yes i know i am operational). But, at this moment, I prefer some discussion, convergence and wild growth. As soon as concepts become viable and ready for creating real businss value, some kind of convergence will take place. And from that moment on, things will mature in the well known – something boring – ways. Great for companies and for those who thrive on Service Design.
And we all know that, at that moment some of us – being annoyed because of the consensus of a definition and the loss of the thrill of the buzz – will elaborate and innovate in adjacent or new fields. And that is great, because it stimulates the innovation at the business, professional and personal level.
January 11, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Great post, and great discussion in the comments.
I'd like to feed in two observations: one on purpose, and one on method.
On purpose – I'm delighted that you raise the important question of what service design is attempting to optimise. It's essential to get inside this question. No undertaking will be well-founded (IMO) if it can't be prefaced with examples of the real-world outcomes it's intended to achieve. I don't mean woolly statements of corporate mission and objectives: I mean hard, practical statements such as "when we have done this work, we expect that xxx and yyy will have changed". Defining a desired outcome is harder than defining platitudinous benefits – we all want crime to go down, but phrasing it as "there will be reduced crime of types X, Y and Z after this work completes" is more testing. It also leads naturally to the monitoring and feedback phase, when targets can be set if desired – but critically, an outcome is NOT a target or degree measurement in itself.
And if we are to be holistic in our approach to service design (with the implication that we consider the "whole picture" in and around a service, and have some freedom to cross traditional boundaries in designing) then we also need to be holistic in appreciating the (often conflicting/competing) outcomes that are being sought from the service.
I wrote a few jolly notes a couple of years ago as an exercise to stretch design thinking: http://paulclarke.com/honestlyreal/2008/04/lift-your-spirits/ The point here was that ones "optimal" solution – even for something as banal as a lift in an office building – could vary significantly depending on the outcomes sought.
So: I endorse the point on understanding optimisation and think of it as being as critical as the holistic thinking one might use in the design process itself. But if you can't write down some expected outcomes (even if you end up with something else) you should question your design approach from the start.
On method – I'm not too bothered what precise definitions are used: practice is everything. But it seems to me that a fundamental tenet of service design thinking must be the willingness to set aside boundaries, step out of role, take alternate perspectives (notably that of the service user, of course) and so on. I've seen a few "service design" experts essentially dismiss the difficulties in doing this. To do so carries with it a sort of arrogance: "stand aside, you boring old silo-thinking dinosaurs – the service designers are here – we just sort out all the crap you couldn't fix in decades, and we laugh in the face of rules!"
A calmer appreciation of the tangible constraints (role descriptions, terms of service, powers of delegation), of history (why it is that it is so – people generally aren't stupid…) and of culture (how to people "feel" about change? where is motivation really drawn from?) is a pretty good idea when setting out on this sort of journey.
January 11, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Coming from theater, I have some trouble with your "write down the outcomes" idea (although you say they might change).
In theater – and now in service design – I use rehearsal as an iterative development tool. It is exploratory. When we start, we don't know where we will end up.
We say, "We know what we want our end result to be capable of, but we don't know what it will look like. If we knew, we could stop now."
When you say "outcomes", I would (maybe) say "goals". Are we in disagreement?
January 11, 2011 at 6:15 pm
To do so carries with it a sort of arrogance: "stand aside, you boring old silo-thinking dinosaurs – the service designers are here – we just sort out all the crap you couldn't fix in decades, and we laugh in the face of rules!"
That is exactly what blew up in our face. You don't get SD tangible by just using SD. SD is not the truth. Just a valuable angle.
January 12, 2011 at 10:00 am
Hi George. Thanks so much for sharing your definition quest. I found it really interesting given I've spent a year now trying to build a service design consultancy.
I'd like to share a little of my journey, in the hope that it might add something useful to the conversation.
When I started out I took a definition based approach to describing what we do (to colleagues, clients, everyone). I used the words service design in most of my business conversations, despite the warnings of many people more experienced than I not to, and even found myself determined to make the world understand those terms in the way I thought I did.
But after one to many glassy-eyed stares, and far too few client bites of the cherry I was offering I re-examined my strategy and eventually my fundamental beliefs.
My conviction that services are critical to human happiness, and that they ought to be really well designed hasn't wavered but I'm now playing with the idea of not talking about "service design" at all.
I'm maybe even becoming a bit disenchanted with the idea of SD as a discipline. What if design were the discipline, and services simply our chosen context for the practice of that discipline? What if there were no such thing as "service design"?
Sometimes I do still find myself in definition mode, and here's one model I quite like at the moment: service design is simply the design of services. It's about solving service problems and seizing service opportunities through design (maybe that's a definition of sorts? Similar to the one offered by Annemiek van Moorst?).
To turn this into a more complete concept I think you almost have to add a description of what services are, and describe the characteristics of the design methodology being used. I won't offer my thoughts on those two dimensions right now, but if anyone is interested in hearing them I'd be happy to oblige.
Thanks again for publishing your post, it helped me get clearer in my own thinking on all this.
I'd love to hear more about your experiences and thoughts on incorporating elements of design into your professional work.
Matt Currie
January 12, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Hi all. Thx Matt for your comment. Yes that is what I mean. It would of course include the whole customer lifecycle. Or alternatively it is the entire vakue proposition as Wim Rampen mentioned.
I normally use Customer Experience Management in dealing with clients although this too is becoming increasingly obscured because it is used also by people who are not familiar with the concepts and methodology. Customer Experience is defined as the perception of all direct and indirect interactiins with a brand. Important is 'perception' here – it not the 'truth' but his perception and 'indirect' so also usage of a product and/or service is covered as are the moments when you do not interact with a company but are enjoying its product or annoyed with the service etc. And I like the fact that it is outcome driven.
George, thx again for your post as it obviously helped a lot of people.
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Roy, hope you didn't mind but I mentioned this topic http://www.omnichannel.nl/?p=1472#
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Spring 2009
Volume 7, Number 2
Climate change is now widely recognized as one of the world's most pressing problems. As governments at all levels struggle to address the issue, individuals have begun taking matters into their own hands by purchasing carbon offsets from companies that invest in renewable energy, plant trees, or reduce emissions. The spring 2009 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review explores how individuals are atoning for their use of cars, air travel, and even funerals in "Offsetting Green Guilt."
Shades of Green
Social networking tools reveal that there is an intricate web of relationships between business and environmentalists, which if developed could benefit the environmental movement.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
For-profit executives use business models—such as "low-cost provider" or "the razor and the razor blade"—as a shorthand way to describe the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives are not as explicit about their funding models and have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now.
Offsetting Green Guilt
Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets a way for consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings?
Creating Social Value
The idea that social entrepreneurs create something called social value—good works that go above and beyond what traditional entrepreneurs and businesses deliver—is a dearly held tenet of the social change movement. But what exactly is social value, and how do social entrepreneurs go about creating it?
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Turn on the TV, Class
Poor children can watch rich children's better school classes on TV.
The Pepsi Spirit—of Giving Back
Pepsi's free CSR: enrolling more than 27,000 of its U.S. employees in the Wireless AMBER Alert Program.
Social Entrepreneurs Take the Leads
Skoll and Sundance hope documentary films prove powerful in making social change.
Polling Power
A new Web site shows voters who like-minded peers, organizations, and opinion leaders support.
Texting It In
A free, open-source software package lets health care workers in developing countries better fight disease.
The New Frontier
LeapFrog Investments will bring better insurance to more of the world's poor.
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Millennials MoveOn
To propel young folks to the polls, a political organization mixed Web 2.0 tools with social science savvy.
Tongue-Tied at the Top
While boards sat in silence, executives milked American University and the Smithsonian.
Root Solutions
Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.
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Clear Blood
By 1998, thousands of people had contracted HIV and hepatitis C from Canada's tainted blood supply. To restore the supply and the public's trust, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada created a new organization, Canadian Blood Services. Despite the public health tragedy that it inherited, Canadian Blood Services rebuilt Canadians' faith in the nation's blood supply by infusing transparency into its structure, culture, and operations.
Fundraising in Tough Times
Our economy is in bad shape and will only get worse. So what can fundraisers do to minimize the impact of this difficult period on our organizations, and at the same time maximize income?
Effective Funding
How foundations can best support social innovators.
Busy Jobs Send Most Volunteers
Research finds that men in busy jobs are the most likely to donate their time to volunteer.
Saving Lives, Not Just Souls
New research estimates the value of the services provided by faith-based organizations.
Not Racing to Help
Racism may have played a role in the government's delayed response to Katrina.
Why No Dimes Online
Many philanthropists refrain from online giving.
No Profit for Her
Research shows that men may be more effective than woman at utilizing microfinance investments.
Partners Must Start Smart
Starting on the right terms fosters the trust necessary for partners to work together over the long haul.
Change Takes New Leaders
New leaders are initially given special license to shake things up.
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Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.
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Mighty River Power, the first of a group of New Zealand government assets to be partially floated, could be dual listed in New Zealand and Australia, although no firm decision has been made, State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall said Thursday.
"The government is considering a number of issues in connection to the government share offers and we'll be making decisions at the appropriate times. All information will be made available on or before the release of the prospectus," Mr. Ryall said via email.
A lingering dispute over New Zealand's founding document could halt the government's plans to partially sell four energy companies.
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Peter Pan can fly. Here at the Never Land Pool, you can fly down a 100 foot-long water slide.
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Peter Pan can fly. Here at the Never Land Pool, you can fly down a 100 foot-long water slide.
Link to Never Land Pool at Yesterland
Please discuss it here.
I miss the Neverland theme, it was already so nostalgic with the pirate ship and skull rock. I just don't get it why 'the powers that be' see fit to change things that are already great, when there are quite a few things that are terribly outdated and poor, and should be changed first... yet don't get any attention.
The evolution of the central hotel area reminds me of what happend to EPCOT. They replaced impressive yet dated things with infearior budget refreshes that don't fit the original master plan(thus diminishing the overall experience). The hotel once had a "marina front" theme/vibe, but is now lacking something. The pirate thing looked cool but was too small scaled and budgeted. I love fun tacky retro stuff, but the new vibe with cement, steel and kiddie urination slides hasn't warmed me up yet, but it could have been worse. Though what it replaced might have been better.
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The Disneyland nostalgia theme of the 2001-2012 Disneyland Hotel renovation brought the end of the Never Land Pool.
For me the biggest losses were the Dancing Waters and the waterfalls... sigh...
I hope you're right about the Pirate Ship and Skull rock one day coming back.
I could jump in that Neverland Pool right now! It looks a lot better and way more fun than the new one. I guess it's a sign of the times--just like Las Vegas--the de-theming of everything. Bring back the outrageous signs, the hot dog stands shaped like giant hot dogs, the Jack-in-the Box order machine at Jack-in-the Box. Today's world is way too bland.
I have to admit, the new pool complex as well as Tangaroa and Trader Sam's all came out very nice, but it lacks the established and grown in look of the former Neverland/Waterfall forest area. I'm not sure if the new is ever going to have as lush of a look.
And the marina - I miss that the most. Oh well, we have pictures.
I meant "the 2009-2012 Disneyland Hotel renovation," not the "the 2001-2012 Disneyland Hotel renovation."
The renovation began in 2009: http://micechat.com/forums/disneylan...ng-august.html


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D-backs GM Towers: J.J. Putz, Addison Reed to battle for closer job
When the Arizona Diamondbacks sent top third base prospect Matt Davidson to the Chicago White Sox for Addison Reed, they received a player who has recorded 69 saves over the last two seasons.
In 2013, he locked down 40 games for the Sox, posting a 3.79 ERA while striking out 72 in 71.1 innings pitched.
Is he the team's new closer? At the very least, he's expected to help take care of what was a really sore spot for the D-backs in 2013.
"We certainly had a rough time at the back end of games; some of it had to do with health, J.J. (Putz) missed quite a bit of time," D-backs GM Kevin Towers told Doug and Wolf during their annual Newsmakers Week on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM Monday. "Our bullpen, specifically the ninth, was so spotty. There would be streaks where we were very, very good and we were very, very bad. There was no in between."
D-backs relievers posted the 16th-best ERA in all of baseball at 3.52, but were tied with the Astros for the league lead with 29 blown saves, too.
Perhaps no one epitomized the bullpen's inconsistency quite like Heath Bell, who led the team with 15 saves but also blew seven chances and finished with an ERA of 4.11.
He's since been traded, though, and Towers is confident in the group of relievers the team currently has.
"Getting Addison, he's young, really starting to come into his prime," Towers added. "Forty saves for a ball club there in Chicago that wasn't real strong last year."
Towers said he's been high on Reed since watching him pitch at San Diego State, where he helped close out games for Nationals star Stephen Strasburg.
"There were certain nights where his stuff was as good as Strasburg's," Towers said. "We're excited to have him; he gives us more depth."
Adding Reed also changes others' roles, including the likely move of Brad Ziegler back to a setup position. Last year, the veteran filled in admirably as the closer, finishing the season with 13 saves and an ERA of 2.22, but Towers said the preference would be to have the submarine-thrower in a role that sees him come into the games a bit earlier than the ninth inning.
"Where a lot of times games are decided, where you need that big groundball double play," he said. "He did a great job for us in the ninth, but we didn't really have that guy, that experienced guy in the seventh."
But, Towers said, that does not mean the closer job belongs to Reed. Though he may have been acquired with the idea that he'll assume the role, the 25-year-old is going to have to earn it.
After all, Putz has essentially been the team's closer the last three years, tallying 83 saves in the process. Last season, though, he struggled with injuries and ineffectiveness at times, but rallied to finish the season with six saves and a 2.36 ERA in 34.1 innings. He struck out 38.
"I'm looking forward to the battle," Towers said. "I know when we picked him up, J.J. asked, 'Is this my job,' and I said, 'No, you guys are going to compete.'"
The GM said he told Putz that he believes the competition between a tested veteran like Putz and a young, up-and-coming pitcher like Reed will benefit everyone.
"I know that they get along well, but I'm looking forward to them out in the spring figuring out who's going to be the guy."
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